Not to Speak of the Dog: 101 Short Stories in Verse
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Publishing Details
Not to Speak of the Dog: 101 Short Stories in Verse
By (Author) Christopher Reid
Faber & Faber
Faber & Faber
2nd October 2000
Main
United Kingdom
Classifications
Physical Properties
192
Width 126mm, Height 197mm, Spine 14mm
210g
Description
Not to Speak of the Dog is an anthology that shows the many different ways in which poets tell stories. It includes both English and foreign poems, and poets from the past are placed side by side with our contemporaries, as having a shared interest in the business of presenting tales with the greatest impact and memorability, whether their treatment of them be tragic or anecdotal, serious or amusing, dramatic or mysterious. Not to Speak of the Dog continues a concern with the constraints and liberties of the poem which Christopher Reid investigated in his previous anthology Sounds Good: 101 Poems to be Heard. First and foremost, though, it is a collection of some of the best stories ever written, whether in verse or in prose.
Author Bio
Christopher Reid was born in Hong Kong in 1949. He has received some of Britain's top literary awards, including the Somerset Maugham Award, the Hawthornden Prize, the Cholmondeley Award and, for his first book of poems for children, the Signal Award 2000. For eight years until 1999, he was Poetry Editor at Faber and Faber.
