Jeremy Reed (writer)

Jeremy Reed
Born	1951 (age 73–74) Jersey, Channel Islands
Alma mater	University of Essex
Occupation(s)	Poet, novelist, biographer and literary critic
Awards	Eric Gregory Award (1982); Somerset Maugham Award (1985)
Website	www.jeremyreed.co.uk

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

Career

Born in Jersey, Reed has published more than 50 works over 50 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 been a recipient of the Somerset Maugham Award (1985), the Eric Gregory Award (1982), ^{[3] [4]} and awards from the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Royal Literary Fund and the Arts Council. ^[5] 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. ^[6] His influences include Rimbaud, Artaud, Jean Genet, J. G. Ballard, David Bowie and Iain Sinclair. ^[7] Reed has a long history of publication with Creation Books, Enitharmon Press, Shearsman Books and Peter Owen, and his Selected Poems was published in 1987 by Penguin Books.

He has collaborated with the musician Itchy Ear, ^{[8] [9]} and they perform live under the name The Ginger Light. ^[10] The Ginger Light regularly perform in London at the National Portrait Gallery and the Horse Hospital. 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) degree 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

• 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 Raines 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 Bloch, Henry Clement, Jean-Paul Denard, and Richard Matheson)
• This Is How You Disappear: A Book of Elegies (2007)
• West End Survival Kit (2009)
• Black Russian: Out-Takes from the Airmen's Club 1978-9 (2010)
• Piccadilly Bongo (2010)
• The Glamour Poet Versus Francis Bacon, Rent and Eyelinered Pussycat Dolls (2014) ^[13]
• The Black Book (2016)
• Red Light Blues (2016)
• Candy 4 Cannibals (2017)
• Shakespeare in Soho (2017)
• Reece Mews Underworld (2021, Zagava)
• Dungeness Blue (2021, Zagava) (with Derek Jarman)

Criticism and non-fiction

• Homage to David Gascoyne (1990)
• Lipstick, Sex and Poetry (1991)
• Delirium: An Interpretation of Arthur Rimbaud (1991)
• Segmenting the Black Orange (1994)
• Waiting for the Man: Biography and Critical Study of Lou Reed (1994)
• Blue Sonata: The Poetry of John Ashbery (1994)
• The Last Star: A Study of Marc Almond (1995)
• The Angel in Poetry (1998)
• Scott Walker: Another Tear Falls (1998)
• Brian Jones: The Last Decadent (1999)
• Angels, Divas and Blacklisted Heroes (1999)
• Caligula: Divine Carnage (2000) (with Stephen Barber)
• Marc Almond: Adored and Explored (2001)
• Saint Billie (2002)
• It Had to Be You: The Poetry of John Wieners (2004)
• Jean Genet: Born to Lose (2005)
• Orange Sunshine: The Party That Lasted a Decade (2006)
• A Stranger on the Earth: The Life and Work of Anna Kavan (2006)
• The Dilly: A Secret History of Piccadilly Rent Boys (2014) ^[14]
• I Heard It Through the Grapevine: Asa Benveniste and Trigram Press (2016) ^[15]
• Bandit Poet: London Years (2018) ^[16]

Novels

• The Lipstick Boys (1984)
• Blue Rock (1987)
• Red Eclipse (1989)
• Inhabiting Shadows (1990)
• Isidore: A Novel About the Comte de Lautréamont (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 Gray (1997)
• Sister Midnight (1998)
• The Purple Room (2000)
• Boy Caesar (2003)
• The Grid (2008)
• Here Comes the Nice (2011) ^{[17] [18]}

• Red Carpet and the Gutter (2021, Zagava)
• 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. "Reed, Jeremy" at encyclopedia.com.
5. "Literary cash boost for authors". BBC News. 13 June 2001. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
6. 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.
7. Marshall, Richard (December 2005). "Dreaming with his eyes open". 3:AM Magazine . Retrieved 30 July 2011.
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 (17 May 2013). "Jeremy Reed & The Ginger Light: Big City Dilemma". 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. Carlaw, Darren Richard (21 October 2011). "Here Comes the Nice". New York Journal of Books. Retrieved 15 June 2014.

External links

• Official website
• Jeremy Reed Papers. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.