Toys / Tricks / Traps by Christopher Reid Hardcover Book

Description: Toys / Tricks / Traps by Christopher Reid The Costa Award-winning poets ingenious new collectionof poems is an investigation and test ofWordsworths famous adage: the Child is father of theMan. FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description In Christopher Reids marvellous new collection, a schoolboy furtively andthrillingly drops a marble through the top of his desk so that it makes its wayin darkness along a complicated chute of books, rulers and rubbish, only toemerge from a hole in the base and be caught deftly in his other hand. Thepoem is titled Homeric and might serve as a clue to the mood and constructionof the collection in general, where the poet, now in his seventies, seeksto track down and commune with his much younger self. It is an investigationthat tests Wordsworths the Child is father of the Man by contriving a seriesof transtemporal encounters between two selves who may now, conceivably,begin to understand each other.Reid was born in Hong Kong and, thanks to the roving nature of his fathersemployment, spent some of his childhood in foreign places. Most of the locationsin this book, however, are the Britain of the 1950s and 60s - perhaps, atthis distance in time, no less exotic. As the poems move from pre-verbal experienceto adolescence, the younger self is captured in scenes that illuminatethe steps by which a man - a poet - has been raised. Another poem conjuresup the childhood of Henry James in order to reflect on the large part /mysteryplays in both childhood and art, a proposition that the book as a whole maybe said to endorse through both its wondering gaze and its ingenuity. Author Biography Christopher Reid is the author of many books of poems, includingA Scattering (2009), winner of the Costa Book ofthe Year Award, and The Song of Lunch (also 2009), whichwas made into a BBC film starring Alan Rickman andEmma Thompson. More recently, Robert Bathurst has createdand acted in a theatrical presentation of these twovolumes, under the title Love, Loss & Chianti. Old ToffersBook of Consequential Dogs, Reids canine companion to T.S. Eliots Old Possums Book of Practical Cats, came out in2018. He is currently working on an edition of SeamusHeaneys letters. Promotional The Costa Award-winning poets ingenious new collection of poems is an investigation and test of Wordsworths famous adage: the Child is father of the Man. Details ISBN0571376606 Author Christopher Reid Pages 96 Publisher Faber & Faber Year 2023 ISBN-10 0571376606 ISBN-13 9780571376605 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2023-02-02 UK Release Date 2023-02-02 Imprint Faber & Faber Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2023-02-02 Edition Description Main DEWEY 821.92 Audience General NZ Release Date 2023-04-24 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:140111186;

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