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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Christopher Reid's new collection is a quartet of works for voice! opening with the brisk and brightly coloured monologue of Professor Winterthorn - recently widowed! soon to be retired! who decides on impulse to attend a conference (on 'Nonsense and the Pursuit of Futility as strategies...') in California. Nonsense is the wonderful new collection from award-winning poet Christopher Reid. Zusammenfassung Christopher Reid's new collection is a quartet of works for voice, opening with the brisk and brightly coloured monologue of Professor Winterthorn - recently widowed, soon to be retired, who decides on impulse to attend a conference (on 'Nonsense and the Pursuit of Futility as strategies...') in California.
