Jeremy Reed (born 1951) is a

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-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. He has also published translations of

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, Bogary and Hölderlin. His own work has been translated abroad in more than a dozen languages. He has received awards from

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, Eric Gregory, Ingram Merrill,

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and the Arts Council. He has also won the

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's European Translation Prize. Reed began publishing poems in magazines and small publications in the 1970s. His influences include

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and

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. Reed has a long history of publication with both Creation Books,

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, Shearsman Books and

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, however his ''Selected Poems'' is published by

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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". Reed's BA (hons) and PhD. are from the

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and he has occasionally taught at that institution and at the

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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 Raine Kathleen Jessie Raine CBE (14 June 1908 – 6 July 2003) 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 P ...

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

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, Henry Clement, Jean-Paul Denard,

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) * ''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) * ''The Black Book'' (2016) * ''Red Light Blues'' (2016) * ''Candy 4 Cannibals'' (2017) * ''Shakespeare in Soho'' (2017)

Criticism & non-fiction

* ''Homage to

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'' (1990) * ''Lipstick, Sex and Poetry'' (1991) * ''Delirium: An Interpretation of

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'' (1991) * ''Segmenting the Black Orange'' (1994) * ''Waiting for the Man: Biography and Critical Study of

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'' (1994) * ''Blue Sonata: The Poetry of

John Ashbery John Lawrence Ashbery (July 28, 1927 – September 3, 2017) was an American poet and art critic. Ashbery is considered the most influential American poet of his time. Oxford University literary critic John Bayley wrote that Ashbery "sounded, in ...

'' (1994) * ''The Last Star: A Study of

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'' (1995) * ''The Angel in Poetry'' (1998) * '' Scott Walker: Another Tear Falls'' (1998) * ''

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: The Last Decadent'' (1999) * ''Angels, Divas and Blacklisted Heroes'' (1999) * ''

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: Divine Carnage'' (2000) (with Stephen Barber) * ''Marc Almond: Adored and Explored'' (2001) * ''Saint Billie'' (2002) * ''It Had to Be You: The Poetry of

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'' (2004) * ''

: Born to Lose'' (2005) * ''Orange Sunshine: The Party That Lasted a Decade'' (2006) * ''A Stranger On the Earth: The Life and Work of

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'' (2006) * ''The Dilly: A Secret History of Piccadilly Rent Boys ''(2014) * I Heard It Through the Grapevine - Asa Benveniste and Trigram Press (2016) * Bandit Poet (The London Years) (2018)

Novels

* ''The Lipstick Boys'' (1984) * ''Blue Rock'' (1987) * ''Red Eclipse'' (1989) * ''Inhabiting Shadows'' (1990) * ''Isidore: A Novel About the

Comte de Lautréamont Comte de Lautréamont () was the ''nom de plume'' of Isidore Lucien Ducasse (4 April 1846 – 24 November 1870), a French poet born in Uruguay. His only works, ''Les Chants de Maldoror'' and ''Poésies'', had a major influence on modern arts ...

'' (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)

References

External links

* * Jeremy Reed Papers. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. {{DEFAULTSORT:Reed, Jeremy 1951 births British poets Living people British male poets