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Nonsense by Christopher Reid
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Christopher Reid's new collection is a quartet of works for voice, opening with the brisk and brightly coloured monologue of Professor Winterthorn - recently widowed, soon to be retired, who decides on impulse to attend a conference (on 'Nonsense and the Pursuit of Futility as strategies...') in Califor ...Show more
Selected Poems by Christopher Reid
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
With his first book of poems, "Arcadia" (1979), Christopher Reid won both a Somerset Maugham Award and the Hawthornden Prize. His second, "Pea Soup" (1982), showed him developing the line of defamiliarising metaphor that had associated him, in the public mind, with the so-called Martian School. With his ...Show more
Six Bad Poets by Christopher Reid
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
It follows the exploits of a group of hapless bards, more intimately connected than they themselves can possibly know, in their attempts to navigate the hazards of London literary society. Reid's colourful cast includes an ageing ex-offender, a lecherous academic, a fading grande dame and her underachie ...Show more
Sounds Good by Christopher Reid (Senior Lecturer in English, Queen Mary, University of London)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Younger Fiction
"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. "Sounds G ...Show more
The Curiosities by Reid, Christopher
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
The Curiosities is the eleventh book of poems from this most inventive and celebrated of British poets. Clustering around the letter 'C', the seventy-some poems that comprise this collection celebrate a lexicon of lived experience through a single letter of the alphabet. Here we find tales of cufflinks ...Show more
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