Jeremy Reed (writer)
Jeremy Reed (born 1951) is a Jersey-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 Montale, Cocteau, Nasrallah, Adonis, Bogary and Hölderlin. His own work has been translated abroad in more than a dozen languages. He has received awards from Somerset Maugham, Eric Gregory, Ingram Merrill, Royal Literary Fund and the Arts Council. 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, Enitharmon Press, Shearsman 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'. A recent novel was "The Grid". He has collaborated with the musician Itchy Ear. They perform live under the name The Ginger Light. The Ginger Light regularly perform at The National Portrait Gallery , London 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 University of Essex and he has occasionally taught at that institution and at the University of London.