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'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 whose time machine was designed by Lautreamont and de Sade, and 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 surprises'. Seamus Heaney.
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"Piccadilly Bongo" finds Jeremy Reed, described by Pete Doherty as 'a legend', at his most imaginatively brilliant, writing about his particular London milieu, and most often Soho. The collection, fuelled by breathtaking imagery, is complemented by a CD of Soho Songs from the pop legend and Britain's leading torch singer Marc Almond, as a unique collaboration expressive of deeply-felt, evocative Piccadilly associations. The creative sympathies shared by the two artists is not only a first for poetry, but a powerfully original fusion of energies focused on the Piccadilly ethos of "Johnny Go Home".
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
"Reed's poems fall out of the book at such a rate they evoke the vitality and the very pace of life, at least in sensory terms, of the Soho locale they were written about/around/in, his honesty empowers and carries his work in a number of ways, particularly in his disregard of poetic convention by describing contemporary imagery with tender reverence, but the thing that appealed to me most about 'Piccadilly Bongo' is Reed's scathing criticism on the state of modern British poetry, and his urges and pleas to alter it."
Read my full review at http://ewfbtw.blogspot.com/2011/01/book-piccadilly-bongo-by-jeremy-reed.html
Read my full review at http://ewfbtw.blogspot.com/2011/01/book-piccadilly-bongo-by-jeremy-reed.html
1 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I have been waiting for this forever.Best Almond album there is.Heartbreaking and joyous at the same time.Marcs version of Gloomy Sunday is almost as good as Billy McKenzies.
1 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Sorry, being a massive Marc Almond fan I bought this for the CD, but I promise to read the poems as well.
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