In the echoey tunnel

by Christopher Reid

Very Good Hardback signed and dated 24/9/91 by author. Very good dust jacket, not price clipped. Clean copy. x. + 74p.

Genres: Poetry

73 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1991

About the author

Christopher Reid, FRSL is a Hong Kong-born British poet, essayist, cartoonist, and writer. He has been nominated twice for the Whitbread Awards in 1996 and in 1997. A contemporary of Martin Amis, he was educated at Exeter College, Oxford. He is one of the exponents of Martian poetry which employs unusual metaphors to render everyday experiences and objects unfamiliar. He has worked as poetry editor at Faber and Faber and Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Hull. In January 2010 he was awarded the 2009 Costa Book Award for A Scattering, written as a tribute to his late wife, the actress Lucinda Gane. The work won in the poetry category, and overall Best Book of the Year, becoming the first poet to take the overall prize since Seamus Heaney in 1999.

Reviews

[Rebecca · Rating 4 out of 5]

I do love Christopher Reid - he has such a good handle on turning poems, to make them into something effective.

The patchwork poem to his wife Lucinda was lovely (and heartrending, given her later death, but that is context the poem was written without and does not need to work.)