Description An exploration of love and loss by the renowned Costa Award-winning poet You lived at such speed that the ballpoint script running aslant and fadingacross the faded bluecan scarcely keep up.
He is now a freelance writer and lives in London..
From 1991 to 1999 he was the poetry editor at Faber and Faber, Ltd., where he worked with Ted Hughes on such books as Tales from Ovid and Birthday Letters, and later edited Letters of Ted Hughes (FSG, 2007).
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) and The Song of Lunch.
A moving exploration of the stages of grief and how the "weighty emptinesses" that remain after bereavement change us, A Scattering and Anniversary shows us what it means to love, lose, and--forever changed--continue on.
Paired for the first time with Anniversary, which was written to commemorate the tenth anniversary of Gane\'s death, A Scattering and Anniversary brings the poet into dialogue, again, with the wife he loved.
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.
First published in the UK in 2009 to wide acclaim, winning the Costa Book of the Year, this moving and fiercely self-reflective collection is divided into four poetic sequences.
A Scattering is a 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.
I want to follow, but can\'t.
Your movements blur.
I missimportant steps.
Many words are illegible.
Description An exploration of love and loss by the renowned Costa Award-winning poet You lived at such speed that the ballpoint script running aslant and fadingacross the faded bluecan scarcely keep up
