A Scattering, Christopher Reid’s collection of poems on the illness and death of his wife, defeated favorite Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn to take the £30,000 Costa book of the year prize. A Scattering has sold fewer than 1,000 copies.
A Scattering, Christopher Reid’s collection of poems on the illness and death of his wife, defeated favorite Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn to take the £30,000 Costa book of the year prize. A Scattering has sold fewer than 1,000 copies.