Lipstick, Sex and Poetry - Softcover

One of the U.K.'s foremost cult writers and poets looks back on a life on the wilder side of literary London, focusing on the seamy backstreets of Soho rather than the cozy confines of the Grouch Club.

Jeremy Reed is Britain's most dynamic, adventurous, controversial and futuristic poet. Called by the Independent 'British poetry's glam, spangly, shape-shifting answer to David Bowie', his poetry, fiction and performances are inimitable in their opposition to grey mainstream poetry. He has published over 40 books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, winning prestigious literary prizes like the Somerset Maugham Award. When he came to live in London in the 1980s he received he patronage of Francis Bacon.