More Flowers Than You Could Possibly Carry: Selected Poems 1989-2012

by Barry Schwabsky (Editor), Barry Schwabsky (Editor), Simon Smith (Author), Barry Schwabsky (Editor)

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2016
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This selection of Smith's work features generous selections from Fifteen Exits, Reverdy Road, Mercury and London Bridge, alongside unavailable early work, and previously unpublished poetry from the sequences, More Ammo and Content. On first receiving Reverdy Road Schwabsky recalls: 'It was a revelation: resembling nothing I was familiar with in American poetry despite name-checking Jack Spicer and clear affinities with the New York School's love of speed, wit, and variousness of tone, it had a music I could tune right into, something very much its own though it has also helped me, I think, hear my way into the work of some of Smith's British contemporaries'.

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This selection of Smith's work features generous selections from Fifteen Exits, Reverdy Road, Mercury and London Bridge, alongside unavailable early work, and previously unpublished poetry from the sequences, More Ammo and Content. On first receiving Reverdy Road Schwabsky recalls: 'It was a revelation: resembling nothing I was familiar with in American poetry despite name-checking Jack Spicer and clear affinities with the New York School's love of speed, wit, and variousness of tone, it had a music I could tune right into, something very much its own though it has also helped me, I think, hear my way into the work of some of Smith's British contemporaries'.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 176
Publisher: Shearsman Books
Published: 14 Oct 2016
ISBN 10: 1848615108
ISBN 13: 9781848615106

Author Bio

Simon Smith was born in 1961 in Redruth. He worked at The Poetry Library in The Royal Festival Hall from 1991-2007, and was its Librarian from 2003 until 2007. He has taught Creative Writing at the University of Kent since 2009, where he is a Senior Lecturer. His previous four collections of poetry are Fifteen Exits (Waterloo Press, 2001); Reverdy Road (2003), Mercury (2006) and London Bridge (2010), all with Salt Publishing, and 11781 W. Sunset Boulevard (Shearsman). Poems, translations, essays and reviews have appeared in Poetry Review, PN Review, Stand, fragmente, OR, FENCE, Shearsman magazine, Cordite Poetry Review, Molly Bloom and Tears in the Fence, among other periodicals. In 2004 he was a judge of the National Poetry Competition; in 2009 he was a Fellow at Hawthornden Castle. He is currently working on several projects relating to the work of American poet Paul Blackburn.