For and After

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For and After is Christopher Reid's fourth collection of poems to be published by Faber and Faber, and his first since Expanded Universes in 1996. It consists, more or less half and half, of poems bearing dedications to friends, colleagues and loved ones, and translations or versions of works in foreign languages, including a passage from The Odyssey and a miscellany of pieces by Horace, Leopardi, Baudelaire, Rilke and others. By turns intimate and affectionate, satirical and mischievous, For and After is a dazzling insight into one of the most imaginative minds in the business.

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'Reid is a poet who lives on in the mind, becomes part of one's own inner vocabulary. In every poetic generation there are not more than one or two like that'. Poetry Review

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.