Toys / Tricks / Traps by Christopher Reid anthology it becomes clear that her

it becomes clear that her other subjects (of family

arresting inversions

Written to be read aloud

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mind and self – each in forensic detail

Toys / Tricks / Traps by Christopher Reid anthology it becomes clear that herThis 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