Poetry collection wins Costa Book Award

‘Devastating’ piece of work wins overall prize

27 January 2010

A Scattering, a colllection of poetry by Christopher Reid, has won the Costa Book Award. The collection is a tribute to Reid's late wife. 

Novelist Josephine Hart, who chaired the Costa Book Award judges, said the winning book was ‘a devastating piece of work and all of us on the jury felt it was a book we would wish everybody to read.'

Colm Tóibín (pictured), was strong favourite to pick up the Costa Book Award for his novel Brooklyn, lost out to the moving collection of poems. Tóibín's novel Brooklyn was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2009.

The Man Booker Prize Fiction at its finest