Toys / Tricks / Traps by Christopher Reid anthology mind and self – each

mind and self – each in forensic detail

arresting inversions

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

This is why each Hymn has a particular referent

Toys / Tricks / Traps by Christopher Reid anthology mind and self – eachThis 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