Cherry Smyth is a poet, novelist, critic and curator, born in Ireland, and based in London.

Cherry Smyth's fifth poetry collection is One Mountain: Sold, Arlen House Press, 2025. She collaborated with Craig Baker-Jordan-Baker on the prose-poetry work, If the River is Hidden, Epoque Press, 2022. Previously she published Famished, 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.

Cherry Smyth was the Associate Professor of Creative & Critical Writing in poetry at the University of Greenwich until 2024. She was a Royal Literary Fellow, 2014-2016 and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

She is currently working on a performance of One Mountain: Sold with vocalist Lauren Kinsella and musician Dan Nicholls. One Mountain: Sold explores the ecological threat of a gold mine in the beautiful Sperrin Mountains in Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It employs diverse strategies of eco-poetry to question the Irish tradition of writing landscape and convey the urgency of unchecked extractivism.

One Mountain: Sold is available from Arlen House Press
If the River is Hidden is available from Epoque Press
Famished and Test, Orange are available from Pindrop Press.

• Listen to Cherry on RTE Sunday Miscellany, with More Salmon Than Dolmen, July 2nd, 2023 here
• Read Cherry's Interview featured on Run-Riot
• Read the interview with Cherry Smyth in the Irish Times, 25th May 2019.

Watch the Famished Performance Trailer by Cherry Smyth from Cherry Smyth on Vimeo.
 

Collaborations with musicians:

Composer Laura Snowden set Cherry Smyth's poem 'Evensong' to music for the Chandos Chamber Choir, featured on RTE Lyric FM and on BBC Radio 3, 2020

Cherry Smyth collaborated with the Irish band, Roamer, April 2022. 6 poems set to music for the album Lost Bees, Diatribe Records
Poem by Cherry Smyth from Lost Bees, played on Blue of the Night, RTE Lyric FM, July 12, 2022. Listen from 53.30.

Review of Lost Bees: londonjazznews.com

Audio Poem 'Transparency', read by Cherry Smyth		Audio Poem 'The Road Side', read by Cherry Smyth
For more audio poems by Cherry Smyth, see 'Poetry' For future readings and talks, please check under 'Events' and Cherry Smyth's Instagram For bookings, contact Cherry on mail@cherrysmyth.com