Christopher Reid (writer)
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Christopher John Reid,
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.[1]
He had been nominated for Whitbread Awards
in 1996 and in 1997 (Costa Awards under their previous name).
Biography
Reid was born in
Creative Writing at the University of Hull
.
Books
- Arcadia (1979) – 1980 Somerset Maugham Award, Hawthornden Prize
- Pea Soup (1982)
- Katerina Brac (1985)[2]
- In The Echoey Tunnel (1991)
- Universes (1994)
- Expanded Universes (1996)
- Two Dogs on a Pub Roof (1996)
- Mermaids Explained (2001)
- For and After (2003)
- Mr Mouth (2005)
- 2009 Costa Book Awards[1]
- 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 OCLC 48611316
- Alphabicycle Order, ill. Fanelli (Ondt & Gracehoper, 2001)
- Old Toffer's Book of Consequential Dogs, illustrated by Elliott Elam — companion book to T.S. Eliot'sOld Possum's Practical Cats — (Faber & 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)[2]
- The Letters of Seamus Heaney (2023)
See also
- Craig Raine
- The Song of Lunch (TV adaptation of his poem)
References
- ^ a b Adams, Stephen (9 January 2011). "Poet Christopher Reid is surprise winner of Costa Book of the Year". The Daily Telegraph. UK. Archived from the original on 25 September 2015.
- ^ a b c Payne, Tom (28 January 2010). "Christopher Reid: An Elegy". The Telegraph. UK.
External links
- Christopher Reid at British Council: Literature
- Christopher Reid at Library of Congress, with 16 library catalogue records
- Alphabicycle Order horn concerto at WorldCat – monologue with music (chorus with orchestra) by Colin Matthews
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