Jeremy Reed Poet

Latest Releases     Picadilly Bongo Jeremy Reed and Marc Almond Enitharmon Press Order and info Here         The Grid   One of Britain‘s most idiosyncratic writers – also an acclaimed poet – returns with a typically original and erotically charged novel.   Some time in the not-too-distant future London has merged with Tokyo, police use flying cars to catch kamikazee Boeings and Michael Jackson shops incessantly. Amid the chaos two men are called into a hypnotherapy clinic named the Grid to get treatment for AIDS.   They discover that they are the reincarnations of William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe, a revelation that leads them to the truth about one of the great literary mysteries of all time, the murder of Kit Marlowe in a Deptford tavern in 1593.   Peter Owen Buy Here

The King Of Carnaby Street A Life of John Stephens Haus Publishing Download press release       This Is How You Disapear   This Is How You Disappear is Jeremy Reed's most autobiographical book to date, and one in which he celebrates the dead and missing friends who were the formative and enduring influences on his life as a poet.   Using the elegy to imaginatively recreate the often extraordinary individual characteristics of his subjects, Reed's personal book of the dead is one that burns with his customary dynamic for dazzling imagery, glows with compassion for the suffering, and sparkles with a visual retrieval of detail so acute it hurts.   With the title taken from the first line of a Scott Walker song, 'Rawhide', This Is How You Disappear is elegiac poetry at its most brilliant.   Enitharmon Press Buy Here

Cover image by Luka Young Published 15th October 2009 Order and info Here                   West End Survival Kit   Jeremy Reed is one of Britain’s most talented and highly celebrated poets, called by J.G. Ballard ‘the most original poet writing today’, as well as an acclaimed novelist and biographer intent on rehabilitating neglected greats into his individual pantheon of heroes.   The author of more than thirty books fuelled by unstoppable imaginative thrust, his many literary awards include the Gregory Award and the Somerset Maugham Award for poetry.   His recent books include an epic poem on Elvis Presley Heartbreak Hotel (Orion 2002), a book-length poem on 1960s rock culture Orange Sunshine (SAF 2006), the collections Duck and Sally Inside (Enitharmon 2004) and This Is How You Disappear (Enitharmon 2007), a novel about Christopher Marlowe The Grid (Peter Owen 2008), and his biography of the heroin addicted novelist Anna Kavan A Stranger On Earth (Peter Owen 2006).   Waterloo Press

 

Jeremy Reed Lecture

And The Stars Were Shining: the Glitter and Menthol Cool of John Ashbery’s Poetry

 

JEREMY REED

Monday 6 December

Chair Prof. Grevel Lindop

Venue The Royal Asiatic Society

Doors open at 6.30pm Lecture begins promptly at 7pm Concludes 8.30pm

Admission £5 or £3.50 Members of the Temenos Academy/Concessions

 

 

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