Simon Smith

Simon Smith has published nine collections of poetry. His third, Mercury (Salt Publications), was long-listed for the Costa Prize in 2007. A selected poems, More Flowers Than You Could Possibly Carry, appeared from Shearsman Books in 2016, and his latest books are some Municipal Love Poems (Muscaliet Press) and Day In Day Out (Parlor Press), and his translations of Catullus were published by Carcanet as The Books of Catullus. These three books were published in 2018. Smith is Reader in Creative...See more

Simon Smith has published nine collections of poetry. His third, Mercury (Salt Publications), was long-listed for the Costa Prize in 2007. A selected poems, More Flowers Than You Could Possibly Carry, appeared from Shearsman Books in 2016, and his latest books are some Municipal Love Poems (Muscaliet Press) and Day In Day Out (Parlor Press), and his translations of Catullus were published by Carcanet as The Books of Catullus. These three books were published in 2018. Smith is Reader in Creative Writing at the University of Kent, was a Hawthornden Writing Fellow in 2009, and a judge of the National Poetry Prize in 2004. From 1991-2007 he worked at The Poetry Library in London, becoming Librarian from 2003-2007. Recently poems have appeared in Shearsman, Fortnightly Review and Molly Bloom, from an unpublished book, Midnight Arks. He is now an editor for Free Verse online magazine. He is presently also translating a selection of poems by Du Fu. See less