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The Late Sun

Christopher Reid

A new poetry collection from the Costa Book Award-winner offers a lifetime’s lessons in ‘light and being alive’.

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Format

Hardback

ISBN

9780571360246

Date Published

05.11.2020

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Summary

The new collection of poems from Christopher Reid.

Critic Reviews

There is formal ingenuity even in the most apparently straightforward of pieces here, and part of the pleasure comes from the interaction of form and subject – which, it should hardly need saying, is what poetry is all about. If I had to
recommend a collection as treatment for lockdown blues, The Late Sun might well be it.

John Greening, Poetry Review

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Christopher Reid is the author of many books of poems, including A Scattering (winner of the Costa Book of the Year Award 2009), The Song of Lunch, Nonsense and The Curiosities. For his first collection of poems for children, All Sorts, he received the Signal Award 2000. From 1991 to 1999 he was Poetry Editor at Faber & Faber, where…

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