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A selection of thirty poems.

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The first book of Jeremy Reed's uncompromising, explicitly autobiographical expose of his life as a leading London poet from the 1980s to the present day, a major long poem written in the shop, while managing Red Snapper Books in the period 2007-2008, takes in an acutely personalised retrieval of the Piccadilly Circus ethos in the eighties, including meetings with the artist Francis Bacon, bohemian Soho, an index of personal obsessions includi...

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This is a continuation of the story of Dorian Gray, after surviving the mutilation of his portrait. In this beautiful evocation of a nocturnal world Gray meets Oscar Wilde while living in Paris with Lord Henry Wotton after Wilde's release from prison in 1897 and emerges as a master of the occult arts. He finally leaves France for Venice after the dark secrets of his life are discovered by the androgynous Nadja. Finally, in a spectacular revers...

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Asa Benveniste (1925-1990) who founded the legendary Trigram Press in London, 1965, ostensibly to publish Anglo-American cutting edge poetry influenced by Black Mountain poets, the New York School of Poets and the European avant-garde, was not only a self-taught, one-off maverick genius as a printer, typographer and book-designer, but also a superbly innovative language poet, whose own poetry tended to be obscured by his merits as a publisher....

Before the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, Reed rewrites each of the Bard's sonnets in his own masterful, unique style for a contemporary, lively, gritty and ultimately entertaining take on some of the greatest poems in the English tradition.

In these pages Jeremy Reed optimises his London quarter of Soho and the West End, its outlaws, opportune strangers and rogue mavericks condensed into poems coloured by an imagery that pushes pioneering edges towards final frontiers. Right on the big city moment, and with an eye for arresting acute visual detail, Reed makes the capital personal.

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Delirium, an intuitive and original interpretation of the poet Arthur Rimbaud's life and genius, brings into close focus the crucial period of 1873, when Rimbaud left school and the provinces and lived his "season in hell."Jeremy Reed brings his own imagination to this exploration of Rimbaud's precocity, his near-madness and drug addiction, and his homosexual and violent liaison with the married poet Paul Verlaine. Delirium is one poet's vibra...

Establishing a fusion of literary and serious pop culture, this collection of challenging essays brings together writers and singers who share a common thread of creativity from the cutting edge of their given field. Considering singers ranging from Frank Sinatra and Leonard Cohen to Marc Almond and Scott Walker, this examination also explores writers as diverse as Lautramont, Eugenio Montale, Jean Genet, and Oscar Wilde as well as confronts t...

Reed's new biography draws on new material to map out the enigmatic life and times of one of Britain's most extraordinary novelists.This biography of novelist Anna Kavan, draws on newly discovered material about a visionary writer who renamed herself after a character in one of her own novels and did everything she could to resist biography. It documents Kavan's addiction to heroin, her failed marriages, her bond with her psychiatrist, her sui...