In the Echoey Tunnel

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title In the Echoey Tunnel
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Christopher Reid
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:96
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 126
Category/GenrePoetry by individual poets
ISBN/Barcode 9780571162543
ClassificationsDewey:821.914
Audience
General
Edition Main

Publishing Details

Publisher Faber & Faber
Imprint Faber & Faber
Publication Date 2 September 1991
Publication Country United Kingdom

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.

Author Biography

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.