Selected poems - Christopher Reid

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: as 'Martian' poet, as
Katerina Brac - she being the fictional Eastern European poet of whose
work his collection of the same name purports to be translations - and
as Alfred Stoker, the 100-year-old visionary. Included here as well are
poems from Reid's powerful and moving elegiac volume, A Scattering,
which was named Costa Book of the Year for 2009. This is an essential
introduction to the work of a richly resourceful poet engaged in what he
himself once described as 'provisional negotiations with untidy life'.