Christopher Reid was born in Hong Kong in 1949 and studied at Oxford. He then worked as a freelance journalist and as book review editor of Crafts magazine. His first poetry collection, Arcadia (1979), won the 1980 Somerset Maugham Award and the Hawthornden Prize. This has been followed by Pea Soup (1982); Katerina Brac (1985); In The Echoey Tunnel (1991);...
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This article on the T. S. Eliot Prize was first published on the Poetry Book Society website in 2004. Don Paterson was named the winner of the 11th T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry at an award ceremony held at Lancaster House in London on Monday 19 January. He...
