Simon Pettet
Biography
Simon Pettet is an internationally renowned English-born poet, long-time resident of New York's Lower East Side. His new book of poems is called More Winnowed Fragments, and he’ll be traveling around America in the first months of the new year (Jan-Feb 2007) reading from it and signing copies. His Selected Poems is also still in print and available from the same publisher, Talisman. He is the author of two classic collaborations with photographer-filmmaker Rudy Burckhardt, Conversations About Everything and Talking Pictures, and the editor of the Selected Art Writings of the Pulitzer-prize-winning “New York School” poet James Schuyler.
About the Poet
“He sounds those same simplicities of profound music Blake also knew. He moves with a deft and practiced quiet.…He speaks the truth." —Robert Creeley
"Like Beethoven's Bagatelles, Simon Pettet's short poems have a great deal to say, and their seemingly modest dimensions help rather than hinder his saying it." —John Ashbery
Sample Work
Two poems from More Winnowed Fragments (pdf)
External Links
Jacket Magazine 25 (with a feature on Pettet)
Test Recording
12 December 2006
Simon Pettet (48:48, 46.9 MB, info.)