…stylistically diverse, recalling Seamus Heaney in its atmospheric descriptiveness and Louis MacNeice in its clear-eyed melancholy, but also Wallace Stevens in its reflective, ecological dimensions, and Simon Armitage in its…

…Burneau (1994), was short-listed for the Whitbread First Novel Award. Moon Country (1996) is an account of his visit to Iceland with the poet Simon Armitage, tracing the travels of…

…a flagging list in the 1990s with new talents such as Simon Armitage, Lavinia Greenlaw and Don Paterson. Alongside his day jobs, Reid’s own poetry has quietly asserted its quality…

…the unassuming backdrops of ‘everyday life’ – the supermarkets, cafes and airport vistas of 21st century Britain – and make comparisons with poets like Simon Armitage or Billy Collins inevitable…