Alastair Reid

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Biography

Alastair Reid is a poet, a prose writer, a translator, and a traveller. Born in Galloway, he served in the Royal Navy in wartime, and afterwards left Scotland to live in a number of different countries and languages. Since the 1950s, he has been a travelling correspondent for the New Yorker magazine. He has published over 40 books - poems, essays, prose chronicles, and translations - and his writings have been widely translated. His latest book is a translation of Neruda, Intimacies: Poems of Love (2008).

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Genres (in alphabetical order)

Children, Essays, Poetry, Translation

Bibliography

To Lighten My House   Morgan & Morgan (US), 1953

Allth   (illustrated by Walter Lorraine)   Boston, 1958

Ounce, dice, trice   (illustrated by Ben Shahn)   Little, Brown, 1958

I Will Tell You of a Town   (illustrated by W. Lorraine)   Hutchinson, 1959

Oddments, inklings, omens, moments: poems   J M Dent, 1960

Passwords: places, poems, preoccupations   Little, Brown, 1964

We Are Many/Pablo Neruda   (translator)   Cape Goliard, 1967

A New Decade: poems 1958-1967/Pablo Neruda   (translator with Ben Belitt)   Grove Press, 1969

Extravagaria/Pablo Neruda   (translator)   Cape, 1972

Fully Empowered/Pablo Neruda   (translator)   Souvenir Press, 1976

Don't Ask Me How the Time Goes By: poems 1964-1968/Jose Emilio Pacheco   (translator)   Columbia University Press (US), 1978

Weathering: poems and translations   Canongate, 1978

Isla Negra: a notebook/Pablo Neruda   (translator)   Souvenir Press, 1982

Legacies: selected poems/Heberto Padilla   (translator with Andrew Hurley)   Farrar, Straus, Giroux (US), 1982

Whereabouts   North Point Press (US), 1987

Pablo Neruda: Absence and Presence/Luis Poirot   (translator)   Norton, 1990

An Alastair Reid Reader: selected prose and poetry   University Press of New England (US), 1994

Oases: poems and prose   Canongate, 1997

Digging Up Scotland   Edinburgh International Book Festival, 2002

Antipodes/Padilla   (translator)   Farrar, Straus, Giroux (US), 2004

On the Blue Shore of Silence: Poems of the Sea/Pablo Neruda   (translator)   HarperCollins, 2004

When Now is Not Now   The Poetry Trust, 2006

A Balloon for a Blunderbus   (illustrated by Bob Gill)   Phaidon Press, 2008

Inside Out: Selected Poetry and Translations   Polygon, 2008

Intimacies: Poems of Love/Neruda   (translator with Mary Heebner, illustrator)   Harper, 2008

Outside In: Selected Prose   Polygon, 2008

Read about books by Alastair Reid at encompassculture.com - the British Council's book database and global online book club

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Further reading on this site

New authors on site June 2007
Eight new authors were added to the database in June 2007. Click on the following names to read their bibliographical and biographical details: Julie Bertagna ; Sujata Bhatt ; Alan... more...   (07/08/2007)

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Contact information

Publisher (General enquiries) Canongate Books Ltd 14 High Street Edinburgh  EH1 1TE Scotland Tel: +44 (0)131 557 5111 Fax: +44 (0)131 557 5211 E-mail: customerservices@canongate.co.uk www.canongate.net

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