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Christopher Reid FRSL (born 13 May 1949) is a Hong Kong-born British poet essayist cartoonist and writer. He has been nominated twice for the Whitbread Awards in 1996 and in 1997. A contemporary of Martin Amis he was educated at Tonbridge School and Exeter College Oxford. He is one of the exponents of Martian poetry which employs unusual metaphors to render everyday experiences and objects unfamiliar.