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Ordinary Morning Sunlight
Häftad, 2026
166 kr
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Christopher Reid's poetry is shaped by incisive intent disguised as playfulness and by a powerful resistance to decorum and convention. Ordinary Morning Sunlight operates on a scale that is simultaneously quotidian and timeless, moving easily between here and elsewhere, past and present, life and …
Nonsense
Häftad, 2013
139 kr
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Christopher Reid's new collection is a quartet of works for voice, opening with the brisk and brightly coloured monologue of Professor Winterthorn - recently widowed, soon to be retired, who decides on impulse to attend a conference (on 'Nonsense and the Pursuit of Futility as strategies...') in …
Late Sun
Häftad, 2021
151 kr
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The Late Sun asserts a balance between memorialisation of the recently dead and celebration of the vitality of the living. Early in the collection is a set of poems about the poet's mother, who died in great age after a life of exotic travel, and the poet's own travels, his sense of both place and …
Curiosities
Häftad, 2016
151 kr
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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 …
Toys / Tricks / Traps
Häftad, 2025
161 kr
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The Costa Award-winning poet's ingenious collection of poems is an investigation and test of Wordsworth's famous adage: 'the Child is father of the Man'.In Christopher Reid's marvellous collection, a schoolboy furtively and thrillingly drops a marble through the top of his desk so that it makes its …
Old Toffer's Book of Consequential Dogs
Inbunden, 2021, 3-6 år
190 kr
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I've rounded up a rowdy assemblyOf my own Consequential DogsAs counterparts to Eliot's mogs.Mine are a rough and ready bunch:You wouldn't take them out to lunch . . .But if they strike you as friendly, funny,Full of bounce and fond of a romp,Forgetful of poetic pomp,I trust you'll take them as you …
Song of Lunch
Häftad, 2018
163 kr
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Lunch in Soho with a former lover - but Zanzotti's is under new management, and as the wine takes effect fond memories give way to something closer to the bone . . .Christopher Reid's poem, which since its first publication has been filmed by the BBC and presented on stage in numerous venues, …
Imprison'd Wranglers
The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons 1760-1800
E-bok, 2012
1961 kr
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Although the later eighteenth century has long been regarded as parliamentary oratory''s golden age, its speaking history remains to a large extent unexplored. Imprison''d Wranglers looks in detail at the making of a rhetorical culture inside and outside of the House of Commons during this eventful …
Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture
A Selection
Av John Mullan, Christopher Reid
Inbunden, 2000
3232 kr
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This collection makes available what was once popular but has long been buried. During the eighteenth century, popular culture assumed a peculiar importance. In the early part of the century, high and low cultures often collided. Later in the century, politeness more and more required the …
Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture
A Selection
Av John Mullan, Christopher Reid
Häftad, 2000
1035 kr
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This collection makes available what was once popular but has long been buried. During the eighteenth century, popular culture assumed a peculiar importance. In the early part of the century, high and low cultures often collided. Later in the century, politeness more and more required the …
Imprison'd Wranglers
The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons 1760-1800
Inbunden, 2012
3126 kr
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Although the later eighteenth century has long been regarded as parliamentary oratory's golden age, its speaking history remains to a large extent unexplored. Imprison'd Wranglers looks in detail at the making of a rhetorical culture inside and outside of the House of Commons during this eventful …
Letters of Ted Hughes
Av Ted Hughes, Christopher Reid
Häftad, 2009
288 kr
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At the outset of his career Ted Hughes described letter-writing as 'excellent training for conversation with the world', and he was to become a prolific master of this art which combines writing and talking. This selection begins when Hughes was seventeen, and documents the course of a life at once …
Letters of Ted Hughes
Av Ted Hughes, Christopher Reid
E-bok, 2011
197 kr
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At the outset of his career Ted Hughes described letter writing as 'excellent training for conversation with the world', and he was to become a prolific master of this art. This selection begins when Hughes was seventeen, and documents the course of a life at once resolutely private but intensely …
Selected Poems
E-bok, 2011
164 kr
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Christopher Reid won the Hawthornden Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award for his first collection, Arcadia, and has since then adopted a variety of guises: as 'Martian' poet, as Katerina Brac - she being the fictional Eastern European poet of whose work his collection of the same name purports to be …
Song of Lunch
E-bok, 2010
115 kr
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Lunch in Soho with a former lover - but Zanzotti's is under new management, and as the wine takes effect fond memories give way to something closer to the bone. A mock-elegy for the heady joys of old-time Soho, The Song of Lunch displays the full range of Christopher Reid's wit, craft and human …
Nonsense
E-bok, 2012
145 kr
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Christopher Reid's new collection is a quartet of works for voice, opening with the brisk and brightly coloured monologue of Professor Winterthorn - recently widowed, soon to be retired, who decides on impulse to attend a conference (on 'Nonsense and the Pursuit of Futility as strategies...') in …
Six Bad Poets
E-bok, 2013
148 kr
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It follows the exploits of a group of hapless bards, more intimately connected than they themselves can possibly know, in their attempts to navigate the hazards of London literary society. Reid's colourful cast includes an ageing ex-offender, a lecherous academic, a fading grande dame and her …
Curiosities
E-bok, 2015
148 kr
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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 …
Old Toffer's Book of Consequential Dogs
Inbunden, 2018, 3-6 år
190 kr
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I've rounded up a rowdy assemblyOf my own Consequential DogsAs counterparts to Eliot's mogs.Mine are a rough and ready bunch:You wouldn't take them out to lunch . . .But if they strike you as friendly, funny,Full of bounce and fond of a romp,Forgetful of poetic pomp,I trust you'll take them as you …
Old Toffer's Book of Consequential Dogs
Häftad, 2020, 3-6 år
126 kr
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I've rounded up a rowdy assemblyOf my own Consequential DogsAs counterparts to Eliot's mogs.Mine are a rough and ready bunch:You wouldn't take them out to lunch . . .But if they strike you as friendly, funny,Full of bounce and fond of a romp,Forgetful of poetic pomp,I trust you'll take them as you …
Old Toffer's Book of Consequential Dogs
E-bok, 2018, 3-6 år
97 kr
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I've rounded up a rowdy assemblyOf my own Consequential DogsAs counterparts to Eliot's mogs.Mine are a rough and ready bunch:You wouldn't take them out to lunch . . .But if they strike you as friendly, funny,Full of bounce and fond of a romp,Forgetful of poetic pomp,I trust you'll take them as you …
Scattering and Anniversary
Häftad, 2019
142 kr
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This edition brings together A Scattering and Anniversary into a single book of lamentation and remembrance, its subject being Christopher Reid's wife, the actress Lucinda Gane, who died of cancer at the age of fifty-five. A Scattering was first published in the UK in 2009 to wide acclaim, winning …
Late Sun
E-bok, 2020
181 kr
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The Late Sun asserts a balance between memorialisation of the recently dead and celebration of the vitality of the living. Early in the collection is a set of poems about the poet's mother, who died in great age after a life of exotic travel, and the poet's own travels, his sense of both place and …
Old Toffer's Book of Consequential Dogs
E-bok, 2021, 3-6 år
213 kr
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This wonderfully witty and varied collection, illustrated in full-colour by the brilliant Sara Ogilvie, is perfect for younger readers to appreciate.I've rounded up a rowdy assemblyOf my own Consequential DogsAs counterparts to Eliot's mogs.Mine are a rough and ready bunch:You wouldn't take them …
Toys / Tricks / Traps
Inbunden, 2023
200 kr
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In Christopher Reid's marvellous new collection, a schoolboy furtively and thrillingly drops a marble through the top of his desk so that it makes its way in darkness along a complicated chute of books, rulers and rubbish, only to emerge from a hole in the base and be caught deftly in his other …
Toys / Tricks / Traps
E-bok, 2023
164 kr
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In Christopher Reid's marvellous new collection, a schoolboy furtively and thrillingly drops a marble through the top of his desk so that it makes its way in darkness along a complicated chute of books, rulers and rubbish, only to emerge from a hole in the base and be caught deftly in his other …
Poems of London
Inbunden, 2021
176 kr
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A beautiful hardcover Pocket Poets anthology of poems inspired by this storied city, from its teeming medieval streets to the multicultural metropolis it is today Poems of London covers a wide range of time and includes not only the pantheon of classic English poets, from Shakespeare to Wordsworth …
