Bad Boys

Jeremy Reed

Jeremy Reed’s Bad Boys rehabilitates some of his personal obsessions with poets and rock musicians into a rich assemblage of challenging, provocative assessments, in which the field of writing, London’s Soho, is also integrated as place into the conceptualisation of the text, as a physical involvement in the work’s dynamic.

From John’s Ashbery’s monumental surprises, to the intransigent figure of Kit Marlowe brawling in St Giles, to Hart Crane’s sensational suicide, Reed partners his themes with unique sensitivities that expand his focus into what are perceptual relationships, extending by poetic design the art of essay writing into the art of thematically acute empathy.

Always the passionate advocate of subcultures, lovers of Jeremy Reed’s poetry and fiction will find in these essays the same quintessential motivations of extraordinary imagination that had JG Ballard, himself the subject of one of these pieces, describe Reed’s talent as “almost extraterrestrial in its brilliance.”

About the Author
Jeremy Reed is the author of over fifty books of award-winning poetry, fiction and biography, and also a celebrated performer of his work with Itchy Ear as The Ginger Light.

Concerned with writing from the visionary present into the near future, J. G. Ballard described Reed’s talent as “almost extraterrestrial in its brilliance.”

Controversial, edge-walking and propelled by luminous imagination, he has for both his work and looks been described as “British poetry’s glam, spangly, shape-shifting answer to David Bowie.”

Amongst his recent books are the poetry collections Sooner or Later Frank, Candy4Cannibals and Psychedelic Meadow, and two non-fiction books, The Dilly: A Secret History of Piccadilly Rent Boys, and a biography of Lou Reed titled Waiting for the Man.

He lives in London.

Paperback, 284 pages
1st edition: April 20, 2021
ISBN-13: 978-1-64525-073-9
Price: US$20.00