Cherry Smyth

Cherry Smyth
Born	1960 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.

Criticism of her second collection was

: ‘Here is clarity and realism, couched in language that is accessible and inventive. The title poem carries all Smyth's hallmarks: precision, linguistic inventiveness and joy.’

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