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