A Scattering

Christopher Reid · 2009 CE · Poem · English · Contemporary

Four sequences for the poet's wife, Lucinda, follow her illness and death from cancer and the scattering of her ashes, in a voice that moves between grief and comedy. The poems keep the shape of a continuous account. A book of elegy with a narrative arc, the winner of the Costa Book of the Year.

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