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Sat 07 Jul 2010A triumph of love after death
As he prepares for a reading on Monday that forms part of this year’s Kinsale Arts Week, the 2009 Costa Award-winner Christopher Reid talks to Adam Wyeth about love, loss and his acclaimed poetry collection about both
WHEN Christopher Reid’s latest book of poetry, A Scattering, won the 2009 Costa Poetry Prize for best collection, he was thrilled. When it went on to scoop the overall Costa Award book of the year, Reid said he felt overwhelmed and bewildered. Such was the surprise for a poet to win one of Britain’s most prestigious and commercial prizes, worth £30,000 (€36,000), against a host of heavyweight writers, including the odds-on favourite, Colm Tóibín, for his novel Brooklyn.
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