Alastair Reid

Born:
  • Galloway, Scotland
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Biography

Alastair Reid was 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. In the 1950s, he became a travelling correspondent for the New Yorker magazine. He published over 40 books - poems, essays, prose chronicles, and translations - and his writings have been widely translated. Intimacies: Poems of Love (2008) is a translation of Neruda.

His books include Inside Out: Selected Poetry and Translations (2008) and Outside In: Selected Prose (2008). Alastair Reid died in September 2014.

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Bibliography

A Balloon for a Blunderbus
Inside Out: Selected Poetry and Translations
Outside In: Selected Prose
Intimacies: Poems of Love/Neruda
When Now is Not Now
Antipodes/Padilla
On the Blue Shore of Silence: Poems of the Sea/Pablo Neruda
Digging Up Scotland
Oases: poems and prose
An Alastair Reid Reader: selected prose and poetry
Pablo Neruda: Absence and Presence/Luis Poirot
Whereabouts
Legacies: selected poems/Heberto Padilla
Isla Negra: a notebook/Pablo Neruda
Weathering: Poems and Translations
Don't Ask Me How the Time Goes By: poems 1964-1968/Jose Emilio Pacheco
Fully Empowered/Pablo Neruda
Extravagaria/Pablo Neruda
A New Decade: poems 1958-1967/Pablo Neruda
We Are Many/Pablo Neruda
Passwords: places, poems, preoccupations
Oddments, inklings, omens, moments: poems
I Will Tell You of a Town
Ounce, dice, trice
Allth
To Lighten My House