Draft:Simon Pettet

Simon Pettet
Simon Pettet is an English-born poet and long-time resident of New York's Lower East Side. Born on November 6, 1953, in Wrotham, England, he studied at the University of Essex (with Ted Berrigan) from 1972-1975, and at Kings College, University of London (with Eric Mottram) from 1976-1977. In 1977, he relocated to the United States of America where he went on to publish a variety of his poetry with Talisman House Publishers, most notably his collected poems, Hearth, and an addenda to his collected poems, As A Bee. Pettet also compiled and edited the Selected Art Writings of the "New York School" poet James Schuyler, as well as co-editing (with James Meetze) Other Flowers, Schuyler's posthumous poems. He has made two collaborations with photographer-filmmaker Rudy Burckhardt: Conversations about Everything and Talking Pictures. He also published a fine-arts limited edition, Abundant Treasures with painter Duncan Hannah. Pettet's poetry has been critically acclaimed, including by Poet John Ashbery who called him a "pillar of the St.Mark's Poetry Project, the core of all that is New York about the New York School," and Joanne Kyger who praised his poetry as "always insightful, ardent, playful, right on the spot, and ahead of the current."

Published Works

 * As A Bee (Talisman House Publishers, 2014)
 * James Schuyler - Other Flowers: Uncollected poems, Co-Editor (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011) [Link ]
 * Hearth (Talisman House Publishers, 2010)
 * More Winnowed Fragments (Talisman House Publishers, 2005)
 * Abundant Treasures, co-authored with Duncan Hannah (Granary Books, 2001)
 * Selected Poems (Talisman House Publishers, 1995)
 * Talking Pictures: The Photography of Rudy Burckhardt (Zoland Books, 1994)
 * James Schuyler - Selected Art Writings, Editor (Black Sparrow Press, 1991)
 * Conversations with Rudy Burckhardt About Everything (Vehicle Editions, 1987) [Link ]

Reviews

 * Andrei Codrescu for Exquisite Corpse
 * Barbara Henning "Warming At Simon Pettet's Hearth"
 * Michael Lally for Lally's Alley
 * Michael Leddy for Jacket
 * Mitch Highfill for Jacket
 * Dale Smith for Jacket

Interviews

 * Anselm Berrigan for Jacket
 * Roger Van Voorhees for Brooklyn Rail

Conversations

 * Simon Pettet and Rudy Burckhardt in conversation for Jacket
 * Simon Pettet and Pam Brown on editing James Schuyler for Jacket

Essays

 * Joseph Donahue "Charm and Trouble - on Simon Pettet's Hearth" for Talisman
 * Ralph Hawkins "Simon Pettet's Hearth" for Intercapillary Space