Expanded Universes

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Among the people and creatures to be met in Expanded Universes are the last sphinx in captivity, a flying prophet, the unorthodox compiler of a Contradictionary, Gertrude Stein's little-known sister and two exceptionally loud-mouthed dogs, Rolf and Garth. Questions of belief and imaginative freedom are approached from sometimes unlikely angles. The man who translated Katerina Brac and preserved the writings of Alfred Stoker, Christopher Reid here continues his project of finding significance in the marginal, the endangered, the aprocryphal and the downright absurd.

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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.