A Scattering And Anniversary: Poems

An exploration of love and loss by the renowned Costa Awardûwinning poet You lived at such speed that the ballpoint script running aslant and fading across the faded blue can scarcely keep up. Many words are illegible. I miss important steps. Your movements blur. I want to follow, but canÆt. A Scattering is a book of lamentation and remembrance, its subject being Christopher ReidÆs wife, the actress Lucinda Gane, who died of cancer at the age of fifty-five. First published in the UK in 2009 to wide acclaim, winning the Costa Book of the Year, this moving and fiercely self-reflective collection is divided into four poetic sequences. The first was written during a holiday a few months before GaneÆs death with the knowledge that the end was approaching; the second recalls her last courageous weeks, spent in a hospice in London; the third continues the exploration of bereavement from a variety of perspectives; and the fourth addresses her directly, celebrating her life, personality, and achievements. Paired for the first time with Anniversary, which was written to commemorate the tenth anniversary of GaneÆs death, A Scattering and Anniversary brings the poet into dialogue, again, with the wife he loved. A moving exploration of the stages of grief and how the ôweighty emptinessesö that remain after bereavement change us, A Scattering and Anniversary shows us what it means to love, lose, andùforever changedùcontinue on.

• | Author: Christopher Reid
• | Publisher: Farrar, Straus And Giroux
• | Publication Date: Oct 09, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 96 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Poetry
• | ISBN-10: 0374538085
• | ISBN-13: 9780374538088