A Scattering and Anniversary

Author: Reid, Christopher

Brand: Penguin Books

Edition: Main

Binding: paperback

Number Of Pages: 96

Release Date: 01-08-2019

Details: Product Description
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 the Costa Book of the Year Award. This moving and fiercely self-reflective collection is divided into four poetic sequences. The first was written during a holiday a few months before Gane's death with the knowledge that the end was approaching; the second recalls her last courageous weeks, spent in a hospice in London; the third continues the exploration of bereavement from a variety of perspectives; and the fourth addresses her directly, celebrating her life, personality and achievements.Pairing A Scattering for the first time with Anniversary, which was written to commemorate the tenth anniversary of Gane's death, this volume brings Reid into dialogue, again, with the wife he loved. A moving exploration of the stages of grief and how the 'weighty emptinesses' that remain after bereavement change us, A Scattering andAnniversary show us what it means to love, lose and - forever changed - continue on.
Book Description
Costa Book of the Year-winning collection combined with poems commemorating the 10th anniversary of the poet's wife's death.
About the Author
Christopher Reid is the author of many books of poems, including
A Scattering (winner of the Costa Book of the Year Award 2009),
The Song of Lunch,
Nonsense and
The Curiosities. For his first collection of poems for children,
All Sorts, he received the Signal Award 2000. From 1991 to 1999 he was Poetry Editor at Faber & Faber, where T.S. Eliot once worked. His
Letters of Ted Hughes appeared in 2007 and he is now editing a selection of Seamus Heaney's correspondence for publication in a few years' time.

EAN: 9780571354535

Package Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.1 x 0.4 inches

Languages: English