Cherry Smyth
Senior Lecturer
Recent Publications
Tel: 020 83318952
Email: c.smyth@gre.ac.uk
Office: King William 336
Office Hours
Friday 11am - 2pm
Cherry Smyth is an Irish poet who has been teaching Creative Writing at Greenwich since 2004. She’s interested in creating and reading poetry that is tautly written, emotionally powerful and intellectually resonant. Her influences include Wislawa Szymborksa, Clarice Lispector, Helene Cixous, Anne Carson and Mark Doty.
Her debut poetry collection, ‘When the Lights Go Up’ was published by Lagan Press, 2001. Her anthology of women prisoners’ writing, ‘A Strong Voice in a Small Space’, Cherry Picking Press, 2002, won the Raymond Williams Community Publishing Award in 2003.
A poetry pamphlet, ‘The Future of Something Delicate’ was published by Smith/Doorstop, 2005. A second collection called ‘One Wanted Thing’ (Lagan Press) appeared in 2006. Her poems appear in ‘Breaking the Skin’, an anthology of Irish poets, Black Mountain Press, 2002, the Apples and Snakes Anthology, ‘Velocity’, 2003, ‘Magnetic North’, 2006, ‘The North’, ‘The Shop’, ‘Staple’, ’Magma’ and ‘Poetry Ireland Review’. She was a prize-winner in the Tonbridge Poetry Competition, 2006 and the London Writers’ Competition, 2007.
She also writes for visual art magazines: Modern Painters, Art Monthly, Art Review and Circa. An essay on photographer Thomas Flechtner was published in Bloom, Lars Muller Publications, 2007.