Cherry Smyth

Cherry Smyth
Born1960
Northern Ireland

Cherry Smyth (born 1960) is a London based, Irish academic, poet, writer and art critic

Biography

Cherry Smyth was born Ballymoney, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. She works teaching poetry in Greenwich University's Creative writing department. She had her first collection of poetry published in 2001. She worked on an anthology of women prisoner's writing in 2003 which won the Raymond Williams Community Publishing award. Smyth writes for art magazines including Modern Painters , Art Monthly and Art Review. She is also involved in works on Gender studies.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]

Criticism of her second collection was positive[8]

: ‘Here is clarity and realism, couched in language that is accessible and inventive. The title poem carries all Smyth's hallmarks: precision, linguistic inventiveness and joy.’

Smyth's third collection, Famished (2019), is a work of documentary poetry which pieces together a history of the Irish Famine. Smyth has performed it in collaboration with the improvisational singer Lauren Kinsella and the musician Ed Bennett throughout Ireland and the UK.

Bibliography

  • Lesbians Talk: Queer Notions, 1992
  • Normapaths : Jane and Louise Wilson, 1995
  • Damn fine art by new lesbian artists, 1996
  • Mandy McCartin: from the street: paintings and drawings, 1996
  • Butch/femme: inside lesbian gender, 1998
  • When the lights go up, 2001
  • Strong voice in a small space : women writing on the iniside / foreword by Martina Cole ; introduced and edited by Cherry Smyth, 2002
  • The future of something delicate, 2005
  • One wanted thing, 2006
  • Tatton Park Biennial 2012: Flights of Fancy
  • Test, Orange, 2012
  • Hold Still, 2013
  • Famished, 2019
  • The pleasure threshold: looking at lesbian pornography on film, 1990

References and sources

  1. ^ Manager. "Cherry Smyth 'Famished' Performance". Sarah Walker Gallery. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
  2. ^ "Your Place and Mine, 22/03/2014, Cherry Smyth's Portstewart Strand". BBC. 22 March 2014. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
  3. ^ Smyth, Cherry (1999). "Poems by Cherry Smyth". Writing Ulster (6): 241–243. JSTOR 30022150.
  4. ^ Butch/femme : inside lesbian gender (Book, 1998) [WorldCat.org]. 4 December 2018. OCLC 38336278.
  5. ^ Cartmill, Claire (5 June 2019). "Cherry Smyth's 'Famished' set to hit the Derry stage". Derry Journal. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
  6. ^ "Marking Halloween's Celtic roots". Otago Daily Times Online News. 26 October 2019. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
  7. ^ Renaud, Alix (17 July 2019). "Kilkenny Arts Festival Colourful Programme Revealed". Hotpress. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
  8. ^ "From colour-coded messages to skilful portraits". The Irish Times. 21 January 2020. Retrieved 27 January 2020.