Christopher Reid is a poet and essayist twice nominated for major literary awards. He is associated with Martian poetry, a style that uses unusual metaphors to make everyday experiences and objects seem unfamiliar. His work is celebrated for its unique perspective and its impact on contemporary poetry. Reid's distinctive style and the depth of his creations mark him as a significant voice in the literary landscape.
Featuring vintage toys, this book takes you through the making process, giving helpful tips to show how to make toys from the Victorian and Edwardian eras. It contains 15 projects to choose from, including diabolo, yo-yo, skipping rope, spinning tops, quoits and skittles and more complicated toys such as a kaleidoscope, walking cow, dog and pig.
Lunch in Soho with a former lover - but Zanzotti's is under new management, and as the wine takes effect fond memories give way to something closer to the bone . Every smallest detail is cherished, as step by step the narrative moves towards its tragicomic outcome.
A tribute to the author's wife consisting of poems written during her final illness and after her death.
A Scattering is a book of lamentation and remembrance, its subject being Christopher Reid's wife, the actress Lucinda Gane, who died of cancer at the age of fifty-five. A moving exploration of the stages of grief, A Scattering and Anniversary shows us what it means to love, lose, and - forever changed - continue on.
Christopher Reid won the Hawthornden Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award for his first collection, Arcadia, and has since then adopted a variety of guises. This title includes poems from Reid's elegiac volume, A Scattering, which was named Costa Book of the Year for 2009.
I've rounded up a rowdy assemblyOf my own Consequential DogsAs counterparts to Eliot's mogs. Mine are a rough and ready bunch:You wouldn't take them out to lunch .
The latest poetry collection from the Costa Book Award-winner offers a lifetime's lessons in 'light and being alive' - now in paperback.
Sounds Good offers a collection of 101 poems, chosen to illustrate the function of sound in poetry. Christopher Reid provides brief notes, approaching the poems from different and sometimes surprising angles, with the purpose of illuminating the processes that have given them their vitality.
In Christopher Reid's marvellous new collection, a schoolboy furtively and thrillingly drops a marble through the top of his desk so that it makes its way in darkness along a complicated chute of books, rulers and rubbish, only to emerge from a hole in the base and be caught deftly in his other hand.
As pop star Hannah Montana, Miley Stewart has it all - designer clothes, fame, fans and fortune. But there's one thing Hannah doesn't have: a driver's license! When she gets the chance to strut the catwalk in the Stella Fabiana Fashion Show, there's no one to give Miley a ride. Then her brother, Jackson, makes Miley a bet she can't refuse.... If Miley can get through the day of babysitting their neighbour's demanding young niece, Jackson will not only give Miley a ride to the show, he'll drive her around anytime she wants. But if Miley loses, she'll be stranded - forever! Read about Miley's friendships with Lilly and Oliver in the Exclusive mini-book included inside. Plus, there are pages of totally rockin' puzzles and quizzes for you to complete!
