He is well known as an inimitably spectacular reader and performer of his work, and collaborates currently with the musician Itchy Ear under the name of The Ginger Light. Jeremy Reed lives in London with cats, and is currently writing a successor to The Life of John Stephen King of Carnaby Street called Mod Male. 

Jeremy Reed is British poetry’s glam, spangly, shape-shifting answer to David Bowie.
The Independent

Jeremy Reed is a legend. What more can you fucking ask?
Pete Doherty

Jeremy Reed’s talent is almost extraterrestrial in its brilliance. He is Rimbaud reconfigured as the Man who fell to Earth, a visitor from deep space powered by the most exotic fuels the imagination has ever devised.
J.G. Ballard

When Patti Smith meets Rimbaud at Graceland, the result is Jeremy Reed’s Heartbreak Hotel.
Edmund White

Reed’s poetry is full of rich and careful writing, dense with pleasure in words that pleasure the world and waken us to its lovely surprise.
Seamus Heaney

In its detail and ambition alone, Orange Sunshine confirms Reed’s place as a great lyric poet of pop’s shadow.
Michael Bracewell

This superb biography peels back the mysteries that surround one of the strangest writers of the twentieth century.
J.G. Ballard on A Stranger on Earth The Life and Work of Anna Kavan.

It’s raining stardust in Heartbreak Hotel. Jeremy Reed’s glitzy, over-the-top homage to Elvis is a dazzling tour de force.
John Ashbery

A wild, minatory, extravagantly delusional work of poetic brilliance.
Will Self on The Grid

Who better than Jeremy Reed to cast and direct Presley as the dead star of an epic poem that smoulders with the aspirations and ashes of the twentieth century?
Geoff Dyer

One of the most original virtuoso voices to be heard in our poetry of the fin de siecle.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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