Big City Dilemma

by Jeremy Reed / The Ginger Light

The Ginger Light is the musical collaboration between the acclaimed poet and author Jeremy Reed and the musician and producer Itchy Ear. Together they create a performance dynamic unparalleled in British Poetry and an excitement usually only generated by pop. The Ginger Light fuses spoken word, music, sound design and song. This is Jeremy Reed's debut CD release. He has had 50 major literary works published over the past 25 years; more than two dozen books of poetry, 12 novels and volumes of music and literary criticism including tomes on Marc Almond (with whom he is a frequent collaborator), Billie Holiday and Elvis Presley and translations of Cocteau, Montale and Adonis among many others. He has won many prestigious literary prizes like the Somerset Maugham Award and was patronised by the legendary artist Francis Bacon.