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Christopher John Reid, FRSL (born 13 May 1949) is a British poet, essayist, cartoonist, and writer. In January 2010 he won the 2009 Costa Book Award for A Scattering, written as a tribute to his late wife, the actress Lucinda Gane. Beside winning the poetry category, Reid became the first poet to take the overall Costa Book of the Year since Seamus Heaney in 1999.

Books

  • Arcadia (1979) – 1980 Somerset Maugham Award, Hawthornden Prize
  • Pea Soup (1982)
  • Katerina Brac (1985)
  • The Song of Lunch (2009)
  • A Box of Tricks for Anna Zyx (2009)
  • Selected Poems (2011)
  • Nonsense (2012)
  • Six Bad Poets (2013)
  • Anniversary (2015)
  • The Curiosities (2015)
  • The Late Sun (2020)

; For children

  • All Sorts: poems, illustrated by Sara Fanelli (London: Ondt & Gracehoper, 1999)
  • Alphabicycle Order, ill. Fanelli (Ondt & Gracehoper, 2001)<!--not in WorldCat but Ext link British Council--><!-- used by Colin Matthews as text for narrator, children's chorus, and orchestra -->
  • Old Toffer's Book of Consequential Dogs, illustrated by Elliott Elam — companion book to T. S. Eliot's Old Possum's Practical Cats — (Faber and Faber, 2018)

; As editor

  • The Poetry Book Society Anthology 1989-1990 (1989)
  • Sounds Good: 101 Poems to be Heard (1990)
  • The May Anthology of Oxford and Cambridge Poetry 1997 (1997)
  • Not to Speak of the Dog: 101 Short Stories in Verse (2000)
  • Selected Letters of Ted Hughes (2007)
  • The Letters of Seamus Heaney (2023)

See also

  • Craig Raine
  • The Song of Lunch (TV adaptation of his poem)

References

  • Alphabicycle Order horn concerto at WorldCat – monologue with music (chorus with orchestra) by Colin Matthews

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