Ordinary Morning Sunlight by Christopher Reid Damian Walford Davies I too wish someone had

I too wish someone had told me the scented soap thing earlier

subtly crafted poetry

Flanagan wrote for The Times

every mood and season

offering a dissection of the self that is by turns playful and sharply ironic

Ordinary Morning Sunlight by Christopher Reid Damian Walford Davies I too wish someone hadChristopher Reid's poetry is shaped by incisive intent disguised as playfulness, and a powerful resistance to decorum and convention. He draws us into the dark with such an offhand manner that we don't know it's happening. Here, he subverts traditional forms such as the ballade, to let his mischievous, almost incidental but deeply moving observations and encounters resound.