Christopher John Reid, FRSL (born 13 May 1949) is a British poet, essayist, cartoonist, and writer.
In January 2010 he won the 2009 Costa Book Award for A Scattering, written as a tribute to his late wife, the actress Lucinda Gane.
Beside winning the poetry category, Reid became the first poet to take the overall Costa Book of the Year since Seamus Heaney in 1999.
A contemporary of Martin Amis, he was educated at Tonbridge School and Exeter College, Oxford.
He is an exponent of Martian poetry,[2] which employs unusual metaphors to render everyday experiences and objects unfamiliar.