This selection of Smith's work features generous selections from Fifteen Exits, Reverdy Road, Mercury and London Bridge, alongside unavailable early work, and previously unpublished poetry from the sequences, More Ammo and Content. On first receiving Reverdy Road Schwabsky recalls: 'It was a revelation: resembling nothing I was familiar with in American poetry despite name-checking Jack Spicer and clear affinities with the New York School's love of speed, wit, and variousness of tone, it had a music I could tune right into, something very much its own though it has also helped me, I think, hear my way into the work of some of Smith's British contemporaries'.
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Weight: 268g
Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
Publication Date: 23 Sep 2016
Publisher: Shearsman Books
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781848615106
About Simon Smith
Simon Smith was born in 1961 in Redruth. He worked at The Poetry Library in The Royal Festival Hall from 1991-2007 and was its Librarian from 2003 until 2007. He has taught Creative Writing at the University of Kent since 2009 where he is a Senior Lecturer. His previous four collections of poetry are Fifteen Exits (Waterloo Press 2001); Reverdy Road (2003) Mercury (2006) and London Bridge (2010) all with Salt Publishing and 11781 W. Sunset Boulevard (Shearsman). Poems translations essays and reviews have appeared in Poetry Review PN Review Stand fragmente OR FENCE Shearsman magazine Cordite Poetry Review Molly Bloom and Tears in the Fence among other periodicals. In 2004 he was a judge of the National Poetry Competition; in 2009 he was a Fellow at Hawthornden Castle. He is currently working on several projects relating to the work of American poet Paul Blackburn.