Christopher Reid
April 3, 2000. Babbott Room, Octagon, 4:00pm

Christopher Reid, a former poetry editor at Faber & Faber in the United Kingdom, has published five volumes of poetry, including Expanded Universes (1996). In his poetry, Reid approaches questions of belief and imaginative freedom from unlikely angles. He finds significance in the marginal, the endangered, the apocryphal and the downright absurd. During his tenure at Faber & Faber he edited works by Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes, including Hughes' Tales from Ovid and Birthday Letters, the poet's collection of poems about his relationship with Sylvia Plath.