A Scattering and Anniversary - by Christopher Reid (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>An exploration of love and loss by the renowned Costa Award-winning poet</b><br><i><br>You lived at such speed that the ballpoint script </i><br><i>running aslant and fading</i><br><i>across the faded blue</i><br><i>can scarcely keep up. Many words are illegible. I miss</i><br><i>important steps. Your movements blur. I want to follow, but can't.</i> <p/><i>A Scattering </i>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. 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. 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. <p/>Paired for the first time with <i>Anniversary</i>, which was written to commemorate the tenth anniversary of Gane's death, <i>A Scattering and Anniversary </i>brings the poet into dialogue, again, with the wife he loved. A moving exploration of the stages of grief and how the "weighty emptinesses" that remain after bereavement change us, <i>A Scattering and Anniversary </i>shows us what it means to love, lose, and--forever changed--continue on.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Christopher Reid</b> is the author of many books of poems, including <i>A Scattering</i> (winner of the Costa Book of the Year Award) and <i>The Song of Lunch</i>. From 1991 to 1999 he was the poetry editor at Faber and Faber, Ltd., where he worked with Ted Hughes on such books as <i>Tales from Ovid</i> and <i>Birthday Letters</i>, and later edited <i>Letters of Ted Hughes</i> (FSG, 2007). He is now a freelance writer and lives in London.
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