Sooner or Later Frank - Softcover

'For JG Ballard, Jeremy Reed was the only contemporary writer worth reading, and now more than ever, his writing (like Ballard's) interrogates the present moment, its sensations, obsessions and experiences, in uniquely subversive and astonishing ways that instantly annul mainstream writing and show that only the extremes and peripheries of imagination and action are the sites of visual creative work. Sooner or Later Frank is a fabulous, profound exploration.' STEPHEN BARBER

Sooner or Later Frank finds Jeremy Reed optimising his London quarter of Soho and the West End, its outlaws, opportune strangers and rogue mavericks condensed into poems coloured by an imagery that pushes pioneering edges towards final frontiers. Right on the big city moment, and with an eye for arresting acute visual detail, Reed makes the capital into personal affairs. His characteristic love of glamour, rock music, seasonal step-changes, and a Ballardian preoccupation with the visionary render this new PBS Recommendation, in John Ashbery's words on Reed's recent work, 'a dazzling tour de force.'