Mark Wynne
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On ‘Toys / Tricks / Traps’ by Christopher Reid
Mark Wynne Whilst Christopher Reid has often disguised deeply autobiographical work behind sophisticated role play – the fictional female translator of an Eastern European poet in the extraordinary Katerina Brac (Faber, 1985) or the gently buffoonish widower Professor Winterthorn in Nonsense (Faber, 2012) – the protagonist of his new collection, Toys / Tricks / Traps…
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‘Gothic’: a poem by Mark Wynne
‘The Nightmare’ by John Henry Fuseli, oil on canvas, 1781 Gothic Where are you now? At the first flush of dawn everything pitched with exaggeration. An ordinary evening against a dull sky illuminated by lightning… Your letters – ironic, obscene – seduced by a fourth-wave feminist in remission. Ruined…