Books by Jeremy Reed

Growing up in Jersey in the 70s, before I left to study at Essex University, wasn't easy as an anomalous poet living in a largely pedestrian, materialistic society. My escape came by finding part-time employment with John Berger, a wealthy, reclusive aesthete, and my unusual introduction to his eccentric lifestyle forms the basis of this sequence.

The third edition of this vibrant poetry magazine showcases some of the finest and most original voices in contemporary poetry todayThe full line-up for the magazine is:Poetry : Jeremy Reed Anna Saunders Christopher Levenson Mark Goodwin Raine Geoghegan Fred D'Aguiar Lucía Orellana Damacela Alison Jones Ceinwen E. Cariad Haydon John F. Deane Sheenagh Pugh Andy Brown Debjani Chatterjee Arundhathi Subramaniam Hannah Brockbank Abegail Morley C.C. Russell Scarlett Ward Kristin Garth Pippa Little Charles Wilkinson Jen Rouse Maggie Mackay Matt Duggan Joan Lennon Natalie Crick Jennie E. Owen Imogen Forster Andrew Greig Elaine Royle Paul Waring Penelope Shuttle Peter J. King Geoff Hattersley Cheryl Pearson Deb Scudder Julian Turner Helen Farish Jacqueline SaphraArticles Helen Calcutt Talking to Victoria Richards David Mark Williams Reading Brian Patten Luke Haines Smash The System Amy Alexander Talking to Kristin Garth & Tianna Hansen Genya Johnson Poetry on the Underground Matt Duggan A Journey Across The Pond Annie Maclean Reading J.O Morgan Martin Malone Mr Willett's Summertime Hannah Brockbank Bloodlines Zack Dicks Gloucester Poetry Festival Moose Allain Postcards From The Hedge

Isthmus was Jeremy Reed's first collection, produced in a finely-printed edition 1980. Overwrought, perhaps even over-written, it shows the author struggling with a gamut of new influences and trying to find his way in a brave new world of poetry.

Asa Benveniste (1925-1990) who founded the Trigram Press in London in 1965, ostensibly to publish Anglo-American cutting-edge poetry, 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.

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, this is a highly courageous and cutting edge poet's autobiography, explicit and detailed in a way few poets would dare.

Bona Vada, the companion volume to Bona Drag (2009), again finds Jeremy Reed piloting stunning imagery into a vitally modern big city experience. If Reed's operational grid is principally London's West End, then his exhilaratingly controversial remit continuously pushes poetry's frontiers out into the always excitingly controversially new.

A collection of poems covering details of the poet's obsessive life, from the colour of Posh Spice's heels, to London street encounters, underworld friends, urban survival tactics, neuroscientific concepts and extraterrestrials.

"Saint Billie".