Christopher Reid

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. Besides 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) 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)