Toys / Tricks / Traps by Christopher Reid anthology He confronted hopelessness as few

He confronted hopelessness as few writers have

She evokes a home no longer accessible and a body at times uninhabitable

Colm Tóibín's first collection of poetry explores travel

Written to be read aloud

reminiscent of the Nicaraguan poet

Toys / Tricks / Traps by Christopher Reid anthology He confronted hopelessness as fewThis 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