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Christopher Reid’s wonderful, calming new collection The Late Sun is a patchwork of sunlight and shade. The opening poem, Photography, set in a sunny restaurant before lunch, ends contemplatively: What I can see and am smitten by is a cool, square depth of shadow and nuance, fixed for an instant, an age. Reid is a parental poet, bringing responsible, reserved yet often playful attention to what he sees. Running at the Sea describes a small boy and girl chasing waves. Charming and accurate, it ends with verbs that could belong to the children themselves. The sea alternates between “boom and shush” – suggestive of a noisy game, a lullaby. In a collection of exceptional observations, Reid misses nothing: a tree surgeon’s acrobatics in an ordinary London plane tree, a riderless horse taking a short canter “on the sly,/ like a loose thought”, mountains seen from a plane, their overflowing shapes brilliantly described as “slovenly”.

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