Jeremy Reed (writer)
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Jeremy Reed is a Jersey
-born writer, poet and prose stylist. Reed has published 50 major works in 25 years. He has written more than two dozen books of poetry, 12 novels, and volumes of literary and music criticism. He has also published translations of Montale
, Cocteau
, Nasrallah
, Adonis, Bogary
and Hölderlin
. His own work has been translated abroad in numerous editions and more than a dozen languages. He has received awards from the National Poetry, Somerset Maugham
, Eric Gregory
, Ingram Merrill, and Royal Literary Fund
s. He has also won the Poetry Society
's European Translation Prize.
Reed began publishing poems in magazines and small publications in the 1970s. His influences include Rimbaud
, Artaud
, Jean Genet
, J.G. Ballard, David Bowie
and Iain Sinclair
. Reed has a long history of publication with both Creation 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. His latest novel to be published is The Grid.
He has collaborated with the musician Itchy Ear. They perform live under the name Ginger Light.
Reed's PhD. is from the University of Essex
, and he has occasionally taught at that institution and at the University of London
.
Jersey
Jersey, officially the Bailiwick of Jersey is a British Crown Dependency off the coast of Normandy, France. As well as the island of Jersey itself, the bailiwick includes two groups of small islands that are no longer permanently inhabited, the Minquiers and Écréhous, and the Pierres de Lecq and...
-born writer, poet and prose stylist. Reed has published 50 major works in 25 years. He has written more than two dozen books of poetry, 12 novels, and volumes of literary and music criticism. He has also published translations of Montale
Eugenio Montale
Eugenio Montale was an Italian poet, prose writer, editor and translator, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1975.- Early years :...
, Cocteau
Jean Cocteau
Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker. His circle of associates, friends and lovers included Kenneth Anger, Pablo Picasso, Jean Hugo, Jean Marais, Henri Bernstein, Marlene Dietrich, Coco Chanel, Erik Satie, María...
, Nasrallah
Emily Nasrallah
Emily Nasrallah , née Emily Abi Rached on July 6, 1931 in Kfeir, Lebanon; is a Lebanese writer and women's rights activist. Emily showed literary talents at an early age, she took up writing and journalism while still in college a talent for which she would receive great recognition...
, Adonis, Bogary
Hamza Bogary
Hamza Mohammad Bogary or Boqari was an Arabic author from Mecca who also worked in broadcasting, becoming Director General of Broadcasting; from 1965 to 1967, he served as Saudi Arabia's Deputy Minister of Information. In 1967 he became a cofounder of King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah...
and Hölderlin
Friedrich Hölderlin
Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin was a major German lyric poet, commonly associated with the artistic movement known as Romanticism. Hölderlin was also an important thinker in the development of German Idealism, particularly his early association with and philosophical influence on his...
. His own work has been translated abroad in numerous editions and more than a dozen languages. He has received awards from the National Poetry, Somerset Maugham
Somerset Maugham Award
The Somerset Maugham Award is a British literary prize given each May by the Society of Authors. It is awarded to whom they judge to be the best writer or writers under the age of thirty-five of a book published in the past year. The prize was instituted in 1947 by William Somerset Maugham and thus...
, Eric Gregory
Eric Gregory Award
The Eric Gregory Award is given by the Society of Authors to British poets under 30 on submission. The awards are up to a sum value of £24000 annually....
, Ingram Merrill, and Royal Literary Fund
Royal Literary Fund
The Royal Literary Fund is a benevolent fund set up to help published British writers in financial difficulties. It was founded by Reverend David Williams in 1790 and has received bequests and donations, including royal patronage, ever since...
s. He has also won the Poetry Society
Poetry Society
The Poetry Society is a membership organisation, open to all, whose stated aim is "to promote the study, use and enjoyment of poetry".The Society was founded in London in February 1909 as the Poetry Recital Society, becoming the Poetry Society in 1912...
's European Translation Prize.
Reed began publishing poems in magazines and small publications in the 1970s. His influences include Rimbaud
Arthur Rimbaud
Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud was a French poet. Born in Charleville, Ardennes, he produced his best known works while still in his late teens—Victor Hugo described him at the time as "an infant Shakespeare"—and he gave up creative writing altogether before the age of 21. As part of the decadent...
, Artaud
Antonin Artaud
Antoine Marie Joseph Artaud, more well-known as Antonin Artaud was a French playwright, poet, actor and theatre director...
, Jean Genet
Jean Genet
Jean Genet was a prominent and controversial French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but later took to writing...
, J.G. Ballard, David Bowie
David Bowie
David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. A major figure for over four decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s...
and Iain Sinclair
Iain Sinclair
Iain Sinclair FRSL is a British writer and filmmaker. Much of his work is rooted in London, most recently within the influences of psychogeography.-Life and work:...
. Reed has a long history of publication with both Creation Books
Creation Books
Creation Books is a British publishing house specializing in experimental literature, surrealism, erotic and decadent literature. Creation also publish non-fiction, with books on magic, subcultures, and taboo topics such as suicide and serial killers. They are best known for publishing a number of...
and Peter Owen
Peter Owen Publishers
Founded in 1951, Peter Owen Publishers is a family-run London-based independent publisher. Notable authors on an eclectic list include Paul and Jane Bowles, the Japanese Catholic author Shusaku Endo, Dali, Gide, Cocteau, Colette, Soseki, Mishima, Karoline Leach, the revisionist biographer of Lewis...
, however his Selected Poems]] is published by Penguin Books
Penguin Books
Penguin Books is a publisher founded in 1935 by Sir Allen Lane and V.K. Krishna Menon. Penguin revolutionised publishing in the 1930s through its high quality, inexpensive paperbacks, sold through Woolworths and other high street stores for sixpence. Penguin's success demonstrated that large...
. His recent art criticism appears in Cornermag: Gareth Lloyd
Gareth Lloyd
Gareth Lloyd is a British artist of Welsh origin, active since 1985.His work connects with a generation of British artists that had a critical relation to 1960s' Pop Art...
Leaving the 20th Century. His latest novel to be published is The Grid.
He has collaborated with the musician Itchy Ear. They perform live under the name Ginger Light.
Reed's PhD. is from the University of Essex
University of Essex
The University of Essex is a British campus university whose original and largest campus is near the town of Colchester, England. Established in 1963 and receiving its Royal Charter in 1965...
, and he has occasionally taught at that institution and at the University of London
University of London
-20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...
.
Collections of Poetry
- Target (1972)
- Agate Paws (1975)
- Diseased Near Deceased (1975)
- Emerald Cat (1975)
- The Priapic Beatitudes, the Bat in Violet Lenses, a Phallic Descant: 1 Runic Epiphanies to a Jade Novella (1975)
- Ruby Onocentaur: Six Poems (1975)
- Count Bluebeard (1976)
- Blue Talaria (1976)
- Green: Miscellanea (1976)
- Isthmus of Samuel Greenberg (1976)
- Night Attack (1976)
- Saints and Psychotics: Poems, 1973-74 (1979)
- Bleecker Street (1980)
- Walk On Through (1980)
- Man Afraid (1982)
- A Long Shot to Heaven (1982)
- The Secret Ones (1983)
- By the Fisheries (1984)
- Nero (1985)
- Elegy for Senta (1985)
- Skies (1985)
- Border Pass (1986)
- Selected Poems (1987)
- Escaped Image (1988)
- Engaging Form (1988)
- Prayer (1988)
- The Thread: Written for Kathleen RaineKathleen RaineKathleen Jessie Raine was a British poet, critic, and scholar writing in particular on William Blake, W. B. Yeats and Thomas Taylor. Known for her interest in various forms of spirituality, most prominently Platonism and Neoplatonism, she was a founder member of the Temenos Academy.-Life:Raine was...
s 80th Birthday (1988) - Madness: The Price of Poetry (1989)
- To Celebrate John Ashbery (1989)
- The Coastguard's House (1990) (with Eugenio Montale)
- The Nineties (1990)
- Dicing for Pearls (1990)
- Lorcas Death (1990)
- Sky Writing (1990)
- Nasturtiums (1991)
- Anastasia in Purple Leopard Spots (1992)
- Volcano Smoke At Diamond Beach (1992)
- Red-Haired Android (1992)
- Black Sugar (1992)
- Around the Day, Alice (1992)
- Artaud (1993)
- Lying Down (1993)
- Turkish Delight: Torriano Meeting House Poetry Pamphlet (1994)
- Torch Lighters (1994)
- Kicks (1995)
- Red Hot Lipstick: Erotic Stories (1995)
- Bitter Blue (1995)
- Listening to Marc Almond (1995)
- Sweet Sister Lyric (1996)
- Pop Poems (1997)
- Angel (1998)
- Brigitte's Blue Heart (1998)
- Claudia Schiffer's Red Shoes (1998)
- For John Heath-Stubbs at eighty (1998)
- Just Out of Reach (1999)
- Quentin Crisp as Prime Minister (1999)
- Patron Saint of Eye-liner (2000)
- Heartbreak Hotel (2002)
- Perry Blake (2003)
- Duck and Sally on the Inside (2004)
- Kiss the Whip (2005) (with Robert BlochRobert BlochRobert Albert Bloch was a prolific American writer, primarily of crime, horror and science fiction. He is best known as the writer of Psycho, the basis for the film of the same name by Alfred Hitchcock...
, Henry Clement, Jean-Paul Denard, Richard MathesonRichard MathesonRichard Burton Matheson is an American author and screenwriter, primarily in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres. He is perhaps best known as the author of What Dreams May Come, Bid Time Return, A Stir of Echoes, The Incredible Shrinking Man, and I Am Legend, all of which have been...
) - This Is How You Disappear: A Book of Elegies (2007)
Criticism & Non-Fiction
- Homage to David GascoyneDavid GascoyneDavid Gascoyne was an English poet associated with the Surrealist movement.-Early life and Surrealism:...
(1990) - Lipstick, Sex and Poetry (1991)
- Delirium: An Interpretation of Arthur RimbaudArthur RimbaudJean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud was a French poet. Born in Charleville, Ardennes, he produced his best known works while still in his late teens—Victor Hugo described him at the time as "an infant Shakespeare"—and he gave up creative writing altogether before the age of 21. As part of the decadent...
(1991) - Segmenting the Black Orange (1994)
- Waiting for the Man: Biography and Critical Study of Lou ReedLou ReedLewis Allan "Lou" Reed is an American rock musician, songwriter, and photographer. He is best known as guitarist, vocalist, and principal songwriter of The Velvet Underground, and for his successful solo career, which has spanned several decades...
(1994) - Blue Sonata: The Poetry of John AshberyJohn AshberyJohn Lawrence Ashbery is an American poet. He has published more than twenty volumes of poetry and won nearly every major American award for poetry, including a Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for his collection Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. But Ashbery's work still proves controversial...
(1994) - The Last Star: A Study of Marc AlmondMarc AlmondMarc Almond is an English singer-songwriter and musician, who originally found fame as half of the seminal synthpop/New Wave duo Soft Cell...
(1995) - The Angel in Poetry (1998)
- Scott WalkerScott Walker (singer)Scott Walker, born Noel Scott Engel on January 9, 1943 is an American singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, and the former lead singer of The Walker Brothers. Despite being American born, Walker's chart success has largely come in the United Kingdom, where his first four solo albums...
: Another Tear Falls (1998) - Brian JonesBrian JonesLewis Brian Hopkins Jones , known as Brian Jones, was an English musician and a founding member of the Rolling Stones....
: The Last Decadent (1999) - Angels, Divas and Blacklisted Heroes (1999)
- Caligula: Divine Carnage (2000) (with Stephen BarberStephen Barber (writer)Stephen Barber is a Professor at Kingston University's and a writer on urban culture, experiment in film and Japanese culture. Barber has been a Professor at Kingston University since 2002, and is currently a Research Professor in the Visual and Material Culture Research Centre, Faculty of Art,...
) - Marc Almond: Adored and Explored (2001)
- Saint Billie (2002)
- It Had to Be You: The Poetry of John WienersJohn WienersJohn Joseph Wieners was an American lyric poet.-Biography:Born in Milton, Massachusetts, Wieners attended St. Gregory Elementary School in Dorchester, Massachusetts and Boston College High School. From 1950 to 1954, he studied at Boston College, where he earned his A.B...
(2004) - Jean GenetJean GenetJean Genet was a prominent and controversial French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but later took to writing...
: Born to Lose (2005) - Orange Sunshine: The Party That Lasted a Decade (2006)
- A Stranger On the Earth: The Life and Work of Anna KavanAnna KavanAnna Kavan was a British novelist, short story writer and painter.-Biography:...
(2006)
Novels
- The Lipstick Boys (1984)
- Blue Rock (1987)
- Red Eclipse (1989)
- Inhabiting Shadows (1990)
- Isidore: A Novel About the Comte de LautréamontComte de LautréamontComte de Lautréamont was the pseudonym of Isidore Lucien Ducasse , an Uruguayan-born French poet....
(1991) - When the Whip Comes Down (1992)
- Diamond Nebula (1994)
- Chasing Black Rainbows (1994)
- The Pleasure Chateau (1995)
- The Sun King: Elvis - the Second Coming (1997)
- Dorian: A Sequel to the Picture of Dorian Grey (1997)
- Sister Midnight (1998)
- The Purple Room (2000)
- Boy Caesar (2003)
- The Grid (2008)
External links
- Official site
- A guide to the Jeremy Reed Papers at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library