He has received awards from the National Poetry, Somerset Maugham, Eric Gregory, Ingram Merrill, and Royal Literary Funds. He has also won the Poetry Society's European Translation Prize.
Reed began publishing poems in magazines and small publications in the 1970s.
His influences include Arthur Rimbaud, Antonin Artaud, Jean Genet, J.G. Ballard, Stephen Barber, David Bowie and Iain Sinclair. Reed has a long history of publication with both Creation Books and Peter Owen.
He has collaborated with the musician Itchy Ear. They perform live under the name Ginger Light.
Jeremy Reed’s website is www.jeremyreed.com
Works by Jeremy Reed:
NOVELS:
The Lipstick Boys
Blue Rock
Red Eclipse
Inhabiting Shadows
Isidore (a novel about Lautréamont)
Red Hot Lipstick (erotic stories)
When The Whip Comes Down (a novel about De Sade)
The Pleasure Chateau (an erotic trilogy)
Chasing Black Rainbows (a novel about Artaud)
Diamond Nebula
Dorian (a sequel to The Picture of Dorian Gray)
Boy Caesar
The Grid
Here Comes the Nice
POETRY:
Target
A Long Shot to Heaven
Saints & Psychotics
Bleecker Street
A Man Afraid
By the Fisheries
Nero
Selected Poems
Engaging Form
Nineties
Brigitte’s Blue Heart
Claudia Schiffer’s Red Shoes
Turkish Delight
Red Haired Android
Kicks
Sweet Sister Lyric
Saint Billie
Black Sugar
Patron Saint of Eyeliner
Dicing For Pearls
Heartbreak Hotel
Duck and Sally Inside
Orange Sunshine
This is How You Disappear
Bona Drag
Black Russian: Out-Takes 1978-9
Piccadilly Bongo
Bona Vada
Whitehall Jackals (with Chris McCabe)
Nothing But a Star
The Glamour Poet Versus Francis Bacon
TRANSLATIONS:
The Coastguard’s House (Eugenio Montale)
Tempest of Stars (Jean Cocteau)
The Complete Poems (Jean Genet)
Praries of Fever (Ibrahim Nasrallah)
All That’s Left to You (Ghassan Kanafani)
On Entering the Sea (Nizar Qabbani)
The Sheltered Quarter (Hamza Bogary)
Hymn to the Night (Novalis)
NON-FICTION:
Heart on my Sleeve
Madness: The Price of Poetry
Angels, Divas and Blacklisted Heroes
Caligula – Divine Carnage (with Stephen Barber)
Dead Brides (Edgar Allan Poe) – Introduction
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde) - Introduction
Through the Looking-Glass (Lewis Carroll) – Introduction
The Dilly – A History of Piccadilly Rent Boys
AUTOBIOGRAPHY:
Lipstick, Sex and Poetry (autobiography)
Bitter Blue (autobiography)
POETRY/PHOTOGRAPHY:
Pop Stars (1995) – with Mick Rock
Big Orange Day (2010) – with Lisa Wilkerson
Exploding into Colour (2012) – with Lisa Wilkerson
Above the Waves (2013) – with Lisa Wilkerson
BIOGRAPHY:
The Last Star (Marc Almond
Another Tear Falls (Scott Walker)
Waiting For the Man (Lou Reed)
The Last Decadent (Brian Jones)
Born to Lose (Jean Genet)
Delirium (Arthur Rimbaud)
A Stranger on Earth (Anna Kavan)
The King of Carnaby Street (John Stephen)
4 Poets & A Play (Ashbery, Gunn, Weiners, Francis Bacon)