When a Girl Loves a Girl

Jeremy Reed

In A Girl Loves a Girl, British poet Jeremy Reed revamps Sappho, the legendary archaic Greek lyric poet from the island of Lesbos. As with all his audaciously frontline poetry and fiction, Reed places history as now in the present, mediated over by update, rather than consigned to the irretrievable past.

As a pioneering reaction to academic attempts to literally recreate a poetry that exists only in fragmentary form, he remakes and expands on the possibilities of meaning in predominantly same-sex motivated poetry in a way that will bring one of the greatest poets of ancient Greece alive to 21st-century readers.

Only Jeremy Reed would dare override scholars from the viewpoint of presenting Sappho in a legacy that extends to new generations of her admirers, as a symbol of love and desire between women.

About the Author
Jeremy Reed is the author of over fifty books of award-winning poetry, fiction and biography, and also a celebrated performer of his work with Itchy Ear as The Ginger Light.

Concerned with writing from the visionary present into the near future, J. G. Ballard described Reed’s talent as “almost extraterrestrial in its brilliance.”

Controversial, edge-walking and propelled by luminous imagination, he has for both his work and looks been described as “British poetry’s glam, spangly, shape-shifting answer to David Bowie.”

Amongst his recent books are the poetry collections Sooner or Later Frank, Candy4Cannibals and Psychedelic Meadow, and two non-fiction books, The Dilly: A Secret History of Piccadilly Rent Boys, and a biography of Lou Reed titled Waiting for the Man.

He lives in London.

Paperback, 278 pages. Release date: May 5, 2020
978-1-64525-022-7
Price: US$19.50

Hardcover, 280 pages. Limited to 70 copies
Release date: May 5, 2020
Price: US$36.00