Awards
2009 Costa Book of the Year
Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
A Scattering consists of four poetic sequences, the first written during her final illness, and the other three at intervals after her death.
About the Author
Christopher Reid was born in Hong Kong in 1949. He studied at Oxford before becoming a journalist and book reviewer. He was Poetry Editor at Faber and Faber from 1991 to 1999, and Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Hull from 2007 to 2009. He also runs his own independent publishing house, Ondt and Gracehoper, and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Reid's poetry collections include Arcadia (1979), which won both the Somerset Maugham Award and the Hawthornden prize, Katerina Brac (1985) and All Sorts, his first book of poems for children, which won the Signal Poetry Award in 2000.