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In London, Tuesdau. 26th January 2010, the Overall Winner was announed and the award goes to ….. poet Christopher Reid for A Scattering, a compilation of poems dedicated to his late wife, Lucinda Gane. Along with the award, Reid won £30,000.
Christopher Reid was born in Hong Kong in 1949 and now lives in London. He studied at Oxford before becoming a journalist and book reviewer. He was Poetry Editor at Faber and Faber from 1991 to 1999, and Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Hull from 2007 to 2009. He also runs his own independent publishing house, Ondt and Gracehoper, and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Reid’s poetry collections include Arcadia (1979), which won both the Somerset Maugham Award and the Hawthornden prize, Katerina Brac (1985) and All Sorts, his first book of poems for children, which won the Signal Poetry Award in 2000. A Scattering and The Song of Lunch were both published in 2009. A Scattering has also been nominated for Britain’s Forward Poetry Prize and the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry. His edition of Letters of Ted Hughes, published in 2007, was recently released in paperback.
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