Description: Cherry Smyth is a contemporary Northern Irish woman poet, novelist and writer, critic and curator, based in London. She was a Royal Literary Fellow, 2014-2016. She writes for Art Monthly and Circa magazine, and writes catalogue essays.
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Cherry Smyth's latest poetry collection Famished is published by Pindrop Press in 2019. Her debut novel Hold Still was published by Holland Park Press in 2013. Her poetry collection Test, Orange , 2012, is available from Pindrop Press . One Wanted Thing , 2006, was published by Lagan Press. She writes regularly for Art Monthly , Modern Painters and Art Review .
Cherry Smyth teaches poetry in the Creative Writing Department of the University of Greenwich. She was a Royal Literary Fellow , 2014-2016.
She is currently working on Famished , a performance project that explores the Irish Famine and how imperialism helped cause the largest refugee crisis of the 19th century. She collaborates with composer Ed Bennett and vocalist Lauren Kinsella to draw on the power of collective lament, using poetry, music and expanded singing.