Christopher Reid

Christopher Reid is an British poet.

Christopher Reid’s Elegiac Scattering

Books, Grief Recovery, Insights, Life, Newsletter, Poetry / By Robert Peake

“Hobgoblin, nor foul fiend; / nor even the jobsworth slob / with a slow sly scheme to rob / my darling of her mind / that I imagined; / just a tumour.” -Christopher Reid, “The Unfinished”, from A Scattering Christopher Reid’s A Scattering is a moving tribute to his wife Lucinda, who died of cancer. …

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Notes on Contemporary British Poetry

Books, Newsletter, Poetry / By Robert Peake

The Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry, edited by Blake Morrison and Andrew Motion, has been my field guide to better-known British poets, and a useful overview for me. Having mostly studied British poets dating from before the 18th century, and American poets since that time, I have been reading this book as eagerly as …

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