Christopher Reid wins Costa book prize
Poet picks up £30,000 prize and huge increase in readership for A Scattering – which has sold less than 1,000 copies
An intensely personal and moving series of poems written as a tribute to his late wife tonight won Christopher Reid one of the UK's most important literary prizes.
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Tuesday, 26 January, 2010
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