"He [Christopher Reid] looks back on his time as Faber’s poetry editor with a feeling of satisfaction, but is as sure that his decision to leave while he was still doing good work was wise: “I’ve never regretted it. It seemed like the right thing to do just then. I never wanted to be the grumpy old fart shuffling about the office with people saying, 'What does he do exactly?’”" Tom Payne • Telegraph

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