Simon Pettet
b. 1953

Simon Pettet is an English-born poet and long-time resident of New York’s Lower East Side.

As a Bee

2014
Paperback
42 p.

“A former English waif, but for decades a pillar of the St Mark’s Poetry Project, the core of all that is New York about the New York School, Simon Pettet offers another collection of tough, fragile musings.” - John Ashbery

︎ $12.95

Hearth

2008
Paperback
178 p.

“The complete works – so far – of contemporary American and British poetry’s most meticulous craftsperson. We dig the purity, dogged love, and artistic devotion of this rare personage. A highly recommended volume.” - Alice Notley

$17.95

More Winnowed Fragments

2005
Paperback
42 p.

“Reading Simon Pettet’s poems is like entering a cottage in the woods that expands into a chateau of the lost domain as soon as you cross the threshold: then the music starts up, for surprise and recognition to perform intricate minuets with the reader’s cognitive receipts. Magical, revivifying, masterful – how many adjectives can dance on the top of a pin? Enter, brothers and sisters,entrez!” - Anselm Hollo

$10.95

Selected Poems

1995
Paperback
110 pg.

“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. An unorthodox lucidity reminiscent of James Schuyler, a certain English dappleness and an oriental concision blend in poetry, whose sweet, complex fragrance is Pettet’s secret.” - John Ashbery

$9.95