Toys / Tricks / Traps by Christopher Reid Malika Booker as well as one of

as well as one of the most popular poets on the school curriculum

Kirsten Luckins’ epistolary poems distill the daily process of grieving

as well as his growing troupe of godchildren – to whom he despatches many of the verses that will ultimately be gathered up in Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats (1939)

and Fellow-Curator of the Hall’s art collection

Toys / Tricks / Traps by Christopher Reid Malika Booker as well as one ofThis ingenious new collection of poems tests Wordsworths famous adage: the Child is father of the Man. Now in his seventies, Christopher Reid seeks to track down and commune with his much younger self by contriving a series of transtemporal encounters where the two may at last, conceivably, begin to understand each other. Reid was born in Hong Kong and, thanks to the roving nature of his fathers employment, spent some of his childhood in foreign