Toys / Tricks / Traps by Christopher Reid Malika Booker outrageous flouting of convention and

outrageous flouting of convention and subversive humour are now fully and flagrantly displayed in Scenes from a Long Sleep

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as well as one of the most popular poets on the school curriculum

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and Fellow-Curator of the Hall’s art collection

Toys / Tricks / Traps by Christopher Reid Malika Booker outrageous flouting of convention andThis 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