Reid follows in the footsteps of Douglas Dunn, Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney by becoming only the fourth poet to win the overall Costa book of the year award, picking up, in total, a £30,000 prize and an incalculable increase in readership.
The judges of the Man Booker Prize, Britain's top literary award, picked up on this heated ambivalence last month when they said that the novel "Vernon God Little," which won the prize this year and which savagely satirizes American culture, "reflects our alarm but also our fascination with modern America".
BBC Sport asked five journalists to give their expert opinions on the nominees for the BBC Africa Footballer of the Year award, picking one player each and explaining why they would get their vote.
And what about the award picks?
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2006 saw Slipknot win their first (and to date only) Grammy Award, picking up the Best Metal Performance award with the single "Before I Forget".
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It won numerous awards, picking up Best Musical at both the Oliviers and the Tonys.
The Costa awards picked up a number of novels whose omission from the Man Booker had left me spluttering.
