Cherry Smyth Explained

Cherry Smyth
Birth Date:	1960
Birth Place:	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]

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Manager . Cherry Smyth 'Famished' Performance . Sarah Walker Gallery . 2020-01-27.
2. Web site: Your Place and Mine, 22/03/2014, Cherry Smyth's Portstewart Strand . BBC . 2014-03-22 . 2020-01-27.
3. 30022150 . Poems by Cherry Smyth . Smyth . Cherry . Writing Ulster . 1999 . 6 . 241–243 .
4. Book: Butch/femme : inside lesbian gender (Book, 1998) [WorldCat.org] . 2018-12-04 . 38336278 .
5. Web site: Cartmill . Claire . Cherry Smyth's 'Famished' set to hit the Derry stage . Derry Journal . 2019-06-05 . 2020-01-27.
6. Web site: Marking Halloween's Celtic roots . Otago Daily Times Online News . 2019-10-26 . 2020-01-27.
7. Web site: Renaud . Alix . Kilkenny Arts Festival Colourful Programme Revealed . Hotpress . 2019-07-17 . 2020-01-27.
8. Web site: From colour-coded messages to skilful portraits . The Irish Times . 2020-01-21 . 2020-01-27.