More Flowers Than You Could Possibly Carry - Smith, Simon
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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from Fifteen Exits, Reverdy Road, Mercury and London Bridge, alongside unavailable early work, and previously unpublished poetry from the sequences, More Ammo and Content.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 editor Barry 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,…mehr

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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from Fifteen Exits, Reverdy Road, Mercury and London Bridge, alongside unavailable early work, and previously unpublished poetry from the sequences, More Ammo and Content.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 editor Barry 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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Simon Smith has published eleven collections of poetry. His third, Mercury (Salt Publications), was long-listed for the Costa Prize in 2007. A selected poems, More Flowers Than You Could Possibly Carry, appeared from Shearsman Books in 2016, and his latest books are Last Morning (Parlor Press) and Source (Muscaliet Press) with Felicity Allen published in 2022. His translations of Catullus were published by Carcanet as The Books of Catullus (2018). He appeared on the 'In Our Time' programme on BBC Radio 4 in 2020 to talk about Catullus and translation.Between 2006 and 2022 Simon Smith taught poetry, translation and creative writing at the University of Kent, London South Bank University and the Open University. In 2009 he was a Hawthornden Writing Fellow, and a judge of the National Poetry Prize in 2004. From 1991-2007 he worked at The Poetry Library in London, becoming Librarian from 2003-2007. He is now a co-editor for the magazines Free Verse and Blackbird, both online. He is presently also translating a selection of poems by Du Fu and completing editing projects related to Paul Blackburn.He is a writer who lives in London and on the Kent Coast.