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Cherry Smyth

b. 1953

Irish art critic, academic and poet

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Born 1953. Cherry Smyth is a British academic, poet, writer and art critic.

Cherry Smyth (born 1960) is a London-based, Irish academic, poet, writer and art critic.

Biography

Cherry Smyth was born in Ballymoney, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. Until 2024, she taught 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 positive:

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.

Smyth was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2022.

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1953, Northern Ireland
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Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

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Who is Cherry Smyth?

Irish art critic, academic and poet

When was Cherry Smyth born?

Cherry Smyth was born in 1953 in Northern Ireland.

What is Cherry Smyth's occupation?

Cherry Smyth is an academic, poet, writer and art critic.

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Cherry Smyth is British.

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Β· Wikidata: Q2962780

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