The website of
SID SMITH
…containing extracts from the novels (although the text of ‘China Dreams’ is complete) and unpublished short stories and poems.
POETRY
Poems: ‘Dogs’ added Jan 18. ‘Dave’s Dick’ added Nov 28. ‘Hitting’ added Nov 4. ‘Here come the winds of the world’ added Nov 3. ‘W.H.S.’ added Oct 28. ‘Winter Fly’ added Oct 12. ‘It leaves the bladder’ added September 17. ‘Now, like a classic Chinese sage’ added September 15. ‘Arguing with the Missus’ added September 13. ‘Sea Song’ added Aug 18. ‘Whatever thrills’, ‘Metre’ and ‘The Hangover’ added Aug 1. ‘To his Niece’ added July 23. ‘The Central Reservation’ added June 27. ‘Tiger, Tiger’ and ‘There is no Better’: added June 25.
Doggerel: ‘My daddy can whistle’ and ‘A Very Hippy Christmas’ added Jan 15.
NOVELS
From ‘Something Like a House’ (Picador, 2001) Whitbread First Novel Award, James Tait Black Memorial Prize
From ‘A House by the River’ (Picador, 2003) “With A House By the River, Smith has fully established himself as one of Britain's most challenging and original novelists:” Times Literary Supplement
The full text of ‘China Dreams’ (Picador, 2007) “Plot summary cannot capture the strange beauty of this spare and intricately constructed novel:” The Guardian
From ‘Nisbet and the Steam Kettle’: a work in progress
STORIES ABOUT MIRRORS
JOURNALISM
I’ve been a journalist for years. However, most of that time was pre-internet, so the stuff is buried in yellowing paper, and now I’m a sub-editor on The Times, correcting other people’s words instead of originating my own. But here are a couple of pieces: