Christopher Reid: The Song of Lunch

The Song of Lunch screening and reading

Christopher Reid has written many books of poems, for both adults and children, and for most of the 1990s he was poetry editor at the London publishing house of Faber and Faber. Among his works are A Scattering, which addressed the loss of his first wife and was named Costa Book of the Year for 2009, and The Song of Lunch, a narrative poem which became the screenplay for a BBC2 film starring Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson. The actor Robert Bathurst has presented A Scattering and The Song of Lunch as a theatrical double bill, under the title Love, Loss & Chianti, most recently at the 2022 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Reid’s latest publications have been Old Toffer’s Book of Consequential Dogs (2018), a canine companion for T.S. Eliot’s Practical Cats; The Late Sun (2020); and Poems of London (2021), an anthology in Everyman’s Pocket Poets series. His new collection Toys/Tricks/Traps will be appear in April this year, and his edition of Seamus Heaney’s correspondence in October.

Organized by the Department of English and Program in Creative Writing. Co-sponsored by the Manetti Shrem Museum.