Christopher Reid is the author of many books of poems, including A Scattering (2009), winner of the Costa Book of the Year Award, and The Song of Lunch (2009). His latest collection is Old Toffer's Book of Consequential Dogs (2018). For most of the 1990s he worked at Faber and Faber, as poetry editor. He is currently editing a volume of Seamus Heaney's letters, to be published in 2022.