Six Bad Poets [Signed]

Christopher Reid

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ISBN 10: 0571304036 ISBN 13: 9780571304035

Published by Faber & Faber, London, 2013

Language: English

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87pp. A farce-in-verse following the exploits of a a group of poets. 1st edition, 1st printing. Gift inscription signed by the author on the title page. To Patricia & William (Oxley) who orgainised the Torbay Poetry Festival (Devon). Their neat ownership stamp is on the ffep. Black cloth covered boards with silver lettering on the spine. Magenta end pages. Tightly bound. Appears unread. Unclipped white dust jacket illustrated by Elliot Elam. Black and pink lettering on face and spine. Also in fine condition.

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Title: Six Bad Poets [Signed]
Publisher: Faber & Faber, London
Publication Date: 2013
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0571304036
ISBN 13: 9780571304035
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: Elliot Elam
Edition: 1st Edition
Printing: 1st Printing
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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It follows the exploits of a group of hapless bards, more intimately connected than they themselves can possibly know, in their attempts to navigate the hazards of London literary society.

Reid's colourful cast includes an ageing ex-offender, a lecherous academic, a fading grande dame and her underachieving best friend, and two young graduates, one as feckless as the other is ambitious. Hard as each may try, the poets' attempts at literary and social advancement are continually hampered both by fate and by a variety of personal shortcomings, ensuring that their story accelerates irrevocably towards comic catastrophe and collapse.

Six Bad Poets is a delicious romp through a world that the author has observed closely over many years, and from which he reports with merciless accuracy, zest and humour.

About the Author

Christopher Reid is the author of a number of books of poems, including A Scattering (winner of the Costa Book of the Year Award) and The Song of Lunch (both 2009). From 1991 to 1999 he was Poetry Editor at Faber and Faber, and worked with Ted Hughes on such books as Tales from Ovid and Birthday Letters. He is now a freelance writer and lives in London. His most recent collection is Nonsense (2012).

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