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Christopher Reid is the author of many books of poems, including A Scattering (winner of the Costa Book of the Year Award 2009), The Song of Lunch, Nonsense and The Curiosities. For his first collection of poems for children, All Sorts, he received the Signal Award 2000. From 1991 to 1999 he was Poetry Editor at Faber & Faber, where T.S. Eliot once worked. His Letters of Ted Hughes appeared in 2007 and he is now editing a selection of Seamus Heaney's correspondence for publication in a few years' time.

Sara Ogilvie was born in Edinburgh and now lives in Newcastle. She graduated with an illustration/printmaking degree and PG diploma from Edinburgh College of Art. She has won numerous awards for her work including a Commonwealth heads of Government commission, presented to Nelson Mandela, HRH the Queen and heads of State. Her work is inspired by words, street life, antiquities, posters, old wives tales, household appliances, carpets, masks, trying to spell sounds, packaging, old second-hand bookshops and pedestrian oddballs. . .