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Christopher Reid
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Christopher Reid

Christopher Reid is the author of a number of books of poems, including A Scattering, which won the Costa Book of the Year Award, and The Song of Lunch. From 1991 to 1999 he was Poetry Editor at Faber and Faber, and worked with Ted Hughes on such books as Tales from Ovid and Birthday Letters. He is now a freelance writer and lives in London.

Books by Christopher Reid
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The Costa Award-winning poet’s ingenious collection of poems is an investigation and test of Wordsworth’s famous adage: ‘the Child is father…

Toys / Tricks / Traps
Christopher Reid
£12.99£10.99
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The Costa Award-winning poet’s ingenious new collection of poems is an investigation and test of Wordsworth’s famous adage: ‘the Child is…

Toys / Tricks / Traps
Christopher Reid
£14.99
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The latest poetry collection from the Costa Book Award-winner offers a lifetime’s lessons in ‘light and being alive’ – now in…

The Late Sun
Christopher Reid
£10.99
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This wonderfully witty and varied collection, illustrated in full-colour by the brilliant Sara Ogilvie, is perfect for younger readers to appreciate.

Old Toffer’s Book of Consequential Dogs (illustrated by Sara Ogilvie)
Christopher Reid
£14.99£12.99
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A new poetry collection from the Costa Book Award-winner offers a lifetime’s lessons in ‘light and being alive’.

The Late Sun
Christopher Reid
£14.99
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T. S Eliot’s Old Possum’s Practical Cats finally gets the companion volume that Eliot had envisaged, written by master of poetry…

Old Toffer’s Book of Consequential Dogs
Christopher Reid
£8.99
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Costa Book of the Year-winning collection combined with poems commemorating the 10th anniversary of the poet’s wife’s death.

A Scattering and Anniversary
Christopher Reid
£10.99
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T. S Eliot’s Old Possum’s Practical Cats finally gets the companion volume that Eliot had envisaged, written by master of poetry…

Old Toffer’s Book of Consequential Dogs (Hardback)
Christopher Reid
£14.99
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Now reissued in the poetry front-list look: Reid’s hugely popular narrative poem The Song of Lunch.

The Song of Lunch
Christopher Reid
£12.99
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A bright and charming new poetry collection, from 2009 Costa Book of the Year winner, Christopher Reid.

The Curiosities
Christopher Reid
£10.99
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Nonsense is the wonderful new collection from award-winning poet Christopher Reid.

Nonsense
Christopher Reid
£9.99
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Six Bad Poets is the new, hilarious farce-in-verse from 2009 Costa Book of the Year winner, Christopher Reid.

Six Bad Poets
Christopher Reid
£12.99
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Nonsense is the wonderful new collection from award-winning poet Christopher Reid.

Nonsense
Christopher Reid
£12.99
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Sounds Good, edited by Christopher Reid, collects 101 poems chosen to illustrate the function of sound in poetry.

Sounds Good
Christopher Reid
£8.99
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The long-awaited Selected Poems of Christopher Reid charts the career of the Costa prize-winning poet.

Selected Poems
Christopher Reid
£14.99
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For and After is Christopher Reid’s fourth collection of poems to be published by Faber & Faber, and his first since…

For and After
Christopher Reid
£8.99

The poems in this collection are presented as translations from the work of the eponymous Katerina Brac, who lives in a…

Katerina Brac
Christopher Reid
£8.99
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A collection of some of the best stories ever written, whether in verse or in prose. Not to Speak of the…

Not to Speak of the Dog
Christopher Reid
£6.99
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Among the people and creatures to be met in Expanded Universes are the last sphinx in captivity, a flying prophet, the…

Expanded Universes
Christopher Reid
£9.99
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Christopher Reid always startles and delights readers of discernment. He has, too, always broken new ground, as evidenced here by two…

In the Echoey Tunnel
Christopher Reid
£4.99