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Psychedelic Meadow
Growing up in Jersey in the seventies, before I left to do American Studies at Essex University, wasn't easy as an anomalous poet living in a largely pedestrian, materialistic society. My escape came by way of finding part--time employment with John Berger, part of the Berger Paints family, who patented Prussian Blue, the first modern synthetic pigment. John Berger, a wealthy, reclusive aesthete and compulsive bibliophile and antiques hoarder, kept his mother mummified in the living room of his property Tivoli, and my unusual introduction to his eccentric, serendipitous lifestyle forms the basis of this sequence. If arson had torched a property of his, left as a ruin in Waterworks Valley, then the shell of the house and the adjoining fields were used by a group of friends of mine to do LSD, and to set up large speakers in the ruin through which to play psychedelic music and the seminal rock albums of the period. We called the place Psychedelic Meadow as it was regularly coloured and shaped by acid. Paula Stratton's LSD documentation of her experience of the drug became a seminal influence on my poetry. When she committed suicide in the late seventies at a squat in Chester Gate, Regent's Park a big light went out in me, and my poem `Elegy for Paula Stratton' can be found in the collection This Is how You Disappear, my book of elegies for dead friends. Nobody I know has ever come more beautiful. (Jeremy Reed)
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Saga of a Yella Girl Turned Blue
In Saga of Yella Girl Turned Blue, the author brings her gift with words to bear on significant passages of a modern life: teen, college, early career, single mother and dating woman, an intensely personal journey that teases out the universal truths that connect and touch each one of us.
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Glamour Poet Versus Francis Bacon, Rent and Eyelinered Pussycat Dolls
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 including rock music and fashion, a defiant colour block of personal friends, patrons, pick-ups and demi-monde outlaws, all generously characterised for their individual importance and contribution to the poet's life, and a direct full-on involvement with unstoppable big-city momentum in the capital, intensely lived on a day to day basis. The book is a highly courageous and cutting edge poet's autobiography, explicit and detailed in a way few poets would dare celebrate quite literally the uncensored resources of a highly individual and sustained personal creativity.
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Bona Drag
"Bona Drag", a rich, brilliantly inventive collection of poems covering every detail 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, more than confirms J.G. Ballard's assessment of Reed, as 'the most gifted poet working today, an extraordinary talent'.
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Bona Vada
Companion volume to Jeremy Reed's 2009 collection, Bona Drag.
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New and Collected Poems 1964-2007
First poetry collection in nearly twenty years. In language that is pointed, innovative and profoundly optimistic, Reed weaves politics and war with Nigerian poetry and jazz all in the service of his continual redefinition of American culture.
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Nutrition Inquiry, Free Verse, Fitbit Melody @ Hyde Park Poetry Palace (Project Number 2)
a work of fiction that does wonders about how creative writing functions well in one's mental fitness our budding poets and inspiring participants will forever impact your mindset by our free mind, fresh balance, and rediscovered version of future.
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Momentum: Love, Life, and Melodies
Momentum: Love, Life and Melodies, the consummation of creative expressions and uninhibited truth rendered from C. Love and D.A. Ashton. The two writers convey experiences that will ignite ideas and rhetoric. The work offers a glance inside the hearts and minds of the authors, who paint vivid images with every printed word. "Reading Momentum's Love took me through those first thoughts and feelings of angst and ecstasy right in that moment of falling in love." -- Rukiya Curvey-Johnson, Former Director Shrine of the Black Madonna Cultural Center & Bookstore (www.shrinebookstore.com) "Mesmerizing, you will not want to put this book down" -- Mark Jones, Author The Animal Story Book Collection
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