Christopher Reid
Illustration — Reid at Humber Mouth 2007 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.
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Christopher Reid
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- Born
- 1949 · Hong Kong.
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Occupation
- poet · journalist · publisher · writer
- Education
- Exeter College · Tonbridge School
- Honours
- Cholmondeley Award · Eric Gregory Award · Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature · Somerset Maugham Award · Hawthornden Prize
- Languages
- English
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Illustration — Reid at Humber Mouth 2007 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.
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He had been nominated for Whitbread Awards in 1996 and in 1997 (Costa Awards under their previous name).
Reid was born in Hong Kong. He was educated at Tonbridge School, followed by Exeter College, Oxford, where he was a contemporary of Martin Amis. He is an exponent 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. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1999.
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1949
Christopher Reid was born on 13 May 1949.
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• Arcadia (1979) – 1980 Somerset Maugham Award, Hawthornden Prize • Pea Soup (1982) • Katerina Brac (1985) • 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) • A Scattering (2009) – Book of the Year, 2009 Costa Book Awards • 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)
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The authorities additionally record the heading Christopher John Reid. His recorded language was English. He married Lucinda Gane. Reid received Cholmondeley Award, Eric Gregory Award, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Somerset Maugham Award and Hawthornden Prize. Recorded with the occupation journalist. Recorded as having received Cholmondeley Award, Eric Gregory Award and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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