Toys / Tricks / Traps by Christopher Reid #foliosociety A fine unblemished

A fine unblemished

Its formal pressures create a kind of kaleidoscopic intensity that - with each turn of the chamber - brings newly beautiful and painful shapes into focus

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From ancient Aztec rituals and underground tree communication networks to ground-breaking new medicines and organic pesticides

In a follow-up to his bestselling first book

Toys / Tricks / Traps by Christopher Reid #foliosociety A fine unblemishedThe Costa Award winning poet's ingenious collection of poems is an investigation and test of Wordsworth's famous adage: 'the Child is father of the Man'. In Christopher Reid's marvellous collection, a schoolboy furtively and thrillingly drops a marble through the top of his desk so that it makes its way in darkness along a complicated chute of books, rulers and rubbish, only to emerge from a hole in the base and be caught deftly in his other hand. The