Dicing for Pearls - Softcover

Reed, Jeremy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1870612809 ISBN 13: 9781870612807

Publisher: Enitharmon Press, 2002

Synopsis

Dicing for Pearls continues a connection between Jeremy Reed and Enitharmon that goes back to his earliest books of poetry in the 1970s and to his first novel The Lipstick Boys in 1984. More recently the association between poet and publisher has been renewed by Jeremy Reed’s latest collection This is How You Disappear (2007). Jeremy Reed’s Selected Poems, published by Penguin Books in 1987, were greeted with great enthusiasm by critics and fellow poets. Kathleen Raine described them as the work of ‘the most imaginatively gifted poet since Dylan Thomas’; Seamus Heaney referred to the ‘rich and careful writing’, and David Lodge drew attention to Reed’s ‘remarkable lyric gift, especially the ability to find fresh and vivid metaphors for the ever-changing sea and the creatures that live in and beside it.’

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About the Author

Jeremy Reed was born in Jersey, Channel Islands, and read for his PhD at the University of Essex. He is widely acknowledged as the most imaginatively gifted British poet of his generation, praised by Seamus Heaney for his 'rich and careful writing' and by David Lodge for his ‘remarkable lyric gift’. Björk simply called his work ‘the most beautiful, outrageously brilliant poetry in the world’. His Selected Poems were published by Penguin in 1987. Subsequent collections have been Nineties (Cape, 1990), Dicing for Pearls (1990), Pop Stars (1994), Sweet Sister Lyric (1996), Saint Billie (2001), Duck and Sally Inside (2004) and This is How You Disappear (2007), all from Enitharmon Press. He has also published Heartbreak Hotel (Orion, 2002), a verse biography of Elvis Presley. Jeremy Reed is currently Marine Society Poet Laureate.

Edition details

• Publisher: Enitharmon Press
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1870612809
• ISBN 13: 9781870612807
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 38