Expanded Universes

About the author

Christopher Reid is the author of a number of books of poems, including A Scattering, which won the Costa Book of the Year Award, and The Song of Lunch. From 1991 to 1999 he was Poetry Editor at Faber and Faber, and worked with Ted Hughes on such books as Tales from Ovid and Birthday Letters. He is now a freelance writer and lives in London.

Summary

Among the people and creatures to be met in Expanded Universes are the last sphinx in captivity, a flying prophet, the unorthodox compiler of a Contradictionary, Gertrude Stein's little-known sister and two exceptionally loud-mouthed dogs, Rolf and Garth. Questions of belief and imaginative freedom are approached from sometimes unlikely angles. The man who translated Katerina Brac and preserved the writings of Alfred Stoker, Christopher Reid here continues his project of finding significance in the marginal, the endangered, the aprocryphal and the downright absurd.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Reid
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.09.1996
• EAN: 9780571179244
• ISBN: 978-0-571-17924-4
• No. of pages: 64
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 6 mm
• Weight: 74 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; POETRY / General, Poetry, Poetry / poems by individual poets