Toys / Tricks / Traps by Christopher Reid Malika Booker who have made the UK

who have made the UK their home

” – Malika Booker

Kirsten Luckins’ epistolary poems distill the daily process of grieving

Watching beauty and disintegration through the lens of the film camera and the eye of the poet

There are the personal longings shaped by old ideas he would like to escape

Toys / Tricks / Traps by Christopher Reid Malika Booker who have made the UKThis ingenious new collection of poems tests Wordsworths famous adage: the Child is father of the Man. Now in his seventies, Christopher Reid seeks to track down and commune with his much younger self by contriving a series of transtemporal encounters where the two may at last, conceivably, begin to understand each other. Reid was born in Hong Kong and, thanks to the roving nature of his fathers employment, spent some of his childhood in foreign