For and After By Christopher Reid

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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 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 site_link For and After is Christopher Reid s seventh collection of poems In a series of dedications and translations or versions Reid offers poems for friends and loved ones as well as works after such influences as Homer Aesop Mallarme Rimbaud and Baudelaire For and AfterI suppose it s a fun pastiche 80 If I were cultured I would appreciate the translations adaptations I did very much like The Ruin though 80