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The Curiosities
Christopher Reid
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Description for The Curiosities
Paperback. Clustering around the letter 'C', this volume includes a collection of seventy-some poems that celebrates a lexicon of lived experience through a single letter of the alphabet. It also features tales of cufflinks and costume, cougars and cochineal, catapults and cavalry, even canoodlings in canoes. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 196 x 15. Weight in Grams: 126.
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 and costume, cougars and cochineal, catapults and cavalry, even canoodlings in canoes. With a characteristic sleight of hand, Christopher Reid shifts deftly between seriousness and play, elegy and anarchy in this sometimes-zany, sometimes-haunting compendium of bright-eyed verses. Here and there the story-telling roams and sweeps: here are tales ... Read more
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 and costume, cougars and cochineal, catapults and cavalry, even canoodlings in canoes. With a characteristic sleight of hand, Christopher Reid shifts deftly between seriousness and play, elegy and anarchy in this sometimes-zany, sometimes-haunting compendium of bright-eyed verses. Here and there the story-telling roams and sweeps: here are tales ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571322961
SKU
V9780571322961
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Ref
99-97
About Christopher Reid
Christopher Reid is the author of many books of poems, including A Scattering (winner of the Costa Book of the Year Award) and The Song of Lunch (both 2009). From 1991 to 1999 he was Poetry Editor at Faber & Faber, where he worked with Ted Hughes on such books as Tales from Ovid and Birthday Letters, and later he ... Read more
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