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Christopher Reid

Autor(a) de A Scattering

34+ Works 407 Membros 6 Críticas 2 Favorited

About the Author

Christopher Reid is Senor Lecturer in English, Queen Mary, University of London.

Séries

Obras por Christopher Reid

A Scattering (2009) 83 exemplares
Sounds Good (Faber Poetry) (1998) 59 exemplares
The Song of Lunch (2009) 32 exemplares
Nonsense (2012) 18 exemplares
In the Echoey Tunnel (1991) 17 exemplares
Katerina Brac (1985) 17 exemplares
For and After (2003) 15 exemplares
Selected Poems (2011) 14 exemplares
Mermaids Explained: Poems (2001) 13 exemplares
Expanded Universes (1996) 10 exemplares
Six Bad Poets (2013) 9 exemplares
Arcadia (Oxford Poets) (1979) 8 exemplares

Associated Works

After Ovid: New Metamorphoses (1994) — Contribuidor — 153 exemplares
The Faber Book of Beasts (1997) — Contribuidor — 140 exemplares
War Music: An Account of Homer's Iliad (Omnibus ed.) (2015) — Editor, algumas edições138 exemplares
War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave [2008 film] (2008) — Actor — 13 exemplares
Of Leaf and Flower: Stories and Poems for Gardeners (2001) — Contribuidor — 11 exemplares
Edmund Burke: Appraisals and Applications (1990) — Contribuidor — 7 exemplares
Red: The Waterstones Anthology (2012) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares

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Conhecimento Comum

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Don't know what to say.

It gets all the emotions, appears simple but has many layers and much depth. A masterful collection.

I'm sure I'll come back to reread this many times.
 
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mjhunt | 1 outra crítica | Jan 22, 2021 |
Short and poignant.
Wish I could find the BBC proms version of it online somewhere.
 
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mjhunt | Jan 22, 2021 |
(Note: I always try to review poetry in my own bad verse. Apologies.)

Eliot's volume of feline-themed verse
Spawned a Broadway musical first
And a movie you might not pay to see
(But the reviews are entertaining for free).

In the spirit of that nonsensical book,
Author Reid chose to take a look
At the canine side of the equation
Finding in their quirks his inspiration.

In penning this sort of companion work,
Unfortunate comparisons always lurk:
I found these poems much less memorable,
I fear the book's not quite as venerable.

Eliot this fellow never will be,
His verse never rises to true poetry.
Or he may have been hampered by one simple fact:
Dogs are just not as poetic as cats.
… (mais)
 
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foggidawn | Jan 6, 2020 |
Dull and way too wordy, though there were one or two really good poems hidden in the mix - they should have been given a much better chance to breathe. Actually by the time I'd finished the collection I really hated the woman he wrote it for, I have to say, so obviously that aspect of it didn't work for me, as surely she can't have been that irritating!

If you want top-class poetry of grief, then you're much better off with Hardy.
 
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AnneBrooke | 1 outra crítica | Nov 11, 2010 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
34
Also by
8
Membros
407
Popularidade
#59,758
Avaliação
4.1
Críticas
6
ISBN
55
Marcado como favorito
2

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