In the Echoey Tunnel

Description

Christopher Reid always startles and delights readers of discernment. He has, too, always broken new ground, as evidenced here by two long poems, both concerned with the coaxing of eloquence from difficult circumstances. The first recounts, in accomplished argot, the quirky memories of an old man in his hundredth year. The second celebrates the recovery from a dangerous illness of his wife - broken fragments that sing themselves into wholeness.

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.