Bad Boys

Jeremy Reeds Bad Boys rehabilitates some of his personal obsessions with poets and rock musicians into a rich assemblage of challenging provocative assessments in which the field of writing Londons Soho is also integrated as place into the conceptualisation of the text as a physical involvement in the works dynamic.From Johns Ashberys monumental surprises to the intransigent figure of Kit Marlowe brawling in St Giles to Hart Cranes sensational suicide Reed partners his themes with unique sensitivities that expand his focus into what are perceptual relationships extending by poetic design the art of essay writing into the art of thematically acute empathy.Always the passionate advocate of subcultures lovers of Jeremy Reeds poetry and fiction will find in these essays the same quintessential motivations of extraordinary imagination that had JG Ballard himself the subject of one of these pieces describe Reeds talent as almost extraterrestrial in its brilliance.