Abstract
Fussing and fiddling: An interview with Christopher Reid
Highlights
Christopher Reid: This takes me back a long way
My parents had a book of selections from the magazine Punch, mainly cartoons and humorous articles, which I first of all enjoyed for the cartoons, as I did comical drawings of my own but there was the occasional piece of light verse as well, and I found myself entranced by them
I didn’t understand them, ; nor could I tell that they were flimsy, without quality; but I was very taken by what I could see was a use of words that wasn’t like ordinary writing, but was a sort of playfulness, rather
Summary
Christopher Reid: This takes me back a long way. I think I must have felt my first excitement about poetry, the excitement of discovery, when I was about seven. When I got that down on the page, I just wanted to write more and more, and about a month later I had all the poems that would appear in my first book for children, All Sorts.
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