Christopher Reid. Christopher Reid: Six Bad Poets by FaberBooks published on 2013-10-14T18:35:25Z Costa Award-winning poet Christopher Reid's CV includes the roles of anthologist, editor, publisher and even academic so there are few people better-placed to turn their satirical eye on the world of contemporary poetry - its ambitions, vanities and rivalries. In January 2010 he won the 2009 Costa Book Award for A Scattering, written as a tribute to his late wife, the actress Lucinda Gane.Reid became the first poet to take the overall Costa Book of the Year since Seamus Heaney in 1999. Christopher Reid. About Christopher Reid. From 1991 to 1999 he was Poetry Editor at Faber & Faber, where he worked with Ted Hughes on such books as Tales from Ovid and Birthday Letters, and later he edited Letters of Ted Hughes (2007). *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. In January 2010 he won the 2009 Costa Book Award for A Scattering, written as a tribute to his late wife, the actress Lucinda Gane.Reid became the first poet to take the overall Costa Book of the Year since Seamus Heaney in 1999. Home. Six Bad Poets is written by one good poet.It is a satirical narrative poem that travels light. Christopher Reid was born 13 May 1949 in Hong Kong. Poets. Christopher Reid is the author of many books of poems, including A Scattering (winner of the Costa Book of the Year Award) and The Song of Lunch (both 2009). Poet Christopher Reid talks about winning the Costa book of the year Christopher Reid on how he turned the death of his wife into a prize-winning poetry collection Stuart Jeffries. Selected Poems (Faber Poetry) Christopher Reid B. 1949. He has been nominated twice for the Whitbread Awards in 1996 and in 1997. Six Bad Poets is a delicious romp through a world that the author has observed closely over many years, and from which he reports with merciless accuracy, zest and humour. Selected Poems (Faber Poetry) [Reid, Christopher] on Amazon.com. Read it now. In every poetic generation that are not more than one or two like that. Christopher John Reid, FRSL (born 13 May 1949) is a Hong Kong-born British poet, essayist, cartoonist, and writer.In January 2010 he won the 2009 Costa Book Award for A Scattering, written as a tribute to his late wife, the actress Lucinda Gane.Beside winning the poetry category, Reid became the first poet to take the overall Costa Book of the Year since Seamus Heaney in 1999. But when British poet Christopher Reid won the Costa Book Award earlier this year, something else was going on. Christopher Reid won the Hawthornden Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award for his first collection, Arcadia, and has since then adopted a variety of guises: as 'Martian' poet, as Katerina Brac - she being the fictional Eastern European poet of whose work his collection of the same name purports to be translations - and as Alfred Stoker, the 100-year-old visionary. The Amazon Book Review Book recommendations, author interviews, editors' picks, and more. Christopher Reid, FRSL is a Hong Kong-born British poet, essayist, cartoonist, and writer.