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Jeremy Reed (writer)

Jeremy Reed (born 1951) is a Jersey-born poet, novelist, biographer and literary critic.

Career

Reed has published over 50 works in 25 years. He has written more than two dozen books of poetry, 12 novels, and volumes of literary and music criticism.[1][2] He has also published translations of Montale, Cocteau, Nasrallah, Adonis, Bogary and Hölderlin. His own work has been translated abroad in more than a dozen languages. He has received awards from Somerset Maugham, Eric Gregory,[3] Ingram Merrill, Royal Literary Fund and the Arts Council.[4] He has also won the Poetry Society's European Translation Prize.[citation needed]

Reed began publishing poems in magazines and small publications in the 1970s.[5] His influences include Rimbaud, Artaud, Jean Genet, J. G. Ballard, David Bowie and Iain Sinclair.[6] Reed has a long history of publication with Creation Books, Enitharmon Press, Shearsman Books and Peter Owen, however his Selected Poems is published by Penguin Books. His recent art criticism appears in Cornermag: 'Gareth Lloyd Leaving the 20th Century'.[7] A recent novel was The Grid.

He has collaborated with the musician Itchy Ear.[8][9] They perform live under the name The Ginger Light.[10] The Ginger Light regularly perform at The National Portrait Gallery, London and The Horse Hospital, London. Their 2012 album, Big City Dilemma, was described as "a trippy comedown machine, taking you by your collar and dragging you along London pavements".[11]

Reed's BA (hons) and PhD. are from the University of Essex[12] and he has occasionally taught at that institution and at the University of London.

Collections of poetry

Novels

  • Surrender to a Stranger (2023)

    • References

    1. ^ "Jeremy Reed – About the Author". Shearsman Books. Shearsman Books. Archived from the original on 6 April 2016. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
    2. ^ "Enitharmon Authors Jeremy Reed". Enitharmon. Archived from the original on 15 September 2012. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
    3. ^ "The Eric Gregory Trust Fund Awards – Past Winners". Society of Authors. Archived from the original on 8 September 2016. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
    4. ^ "Literary cash boost for authors". BBC News. 13 June 2001. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
    5. ^ Lachman, Gary (30 July 2006). "Jeremy Reed: A supernova in orange and purple ink". The Independent. London: INM. ISSN 0951-9467. OCLC 185201487. Archived from the original on 11 May 2009. Retrieved 29 April 2011.
    6. ^ Marshall, Richard (December 2005). "Dreaming with his eyes open". 3:AM Magazine. Retrieved 30 July 2011.
    7. ^ "Gareth Lloyd Leaving the 20th Century".
    8. ^ "Big City Dilemma – Jeremy Reed and Itchy Ear". michael9murray.wordpress.com. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
    9. ^ Reed, Jeremy. "The Ginger Light". Jeremy Reed, Poet. Retrieved 17 April 2016.
    10. ^ "Big City Dilemma – Jeremy Reed & The Ginger Light". Cherry Red Records. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
    11. ^ Pitter, Charles. "PopMatters".
    12. ^ Oxford University Press. "Jeremy Reed". Oxford Reference (Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English). Retrieved 17 April 2016.
    13. ^ Reed, Jeremy (2014). The Glamour Poet versus Francis Bacon, Rent and Eyelinered Pussycat Dolls. Swindon, UK: Shearsman Books. p. 150. ISBN 978-1-84861-323-2.
    14. ^ "The Dilly: A Secret History of Piccadilly Rent Boys Jeremy Reed". Peter Owen Publishers /. Peter Owen. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
    15. ^ Reed, Jeremy (February 2016). I Heard It Through the Grapevine - Asa Benveniste and Trigram Press (1 ed.). Swindon, UK: Shearsman Books. p. 120. ISBN 9781848614635. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
    16. ^ Reed, Jeremy (Winter 2018). Bandit Poet (1 ed.). Germany: Zagava. p. 320. ISBN 978-3-945795-27-9. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
    17. ^ "Here Comes the Nice". Publishers Weekly. 19 September 2011. Retrieved 15 June 2014.
    18. ^ Darren Richard Carlaw (21 October 2011). "Here Comes the Nice". New York Journal of Books. Retrieved 15 June 2014.

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