Above The Waves is the third collaboration between the award-winning and highly acclaimed London-based poet and writer Jeremy Reed and Californian photographer Lisa Wilkerson. Jeremy Reed has had over 40 published works of poetry and prose. Some of the awards Jeremy has won for his writing include the somerset Maugham prize for oetry and his writing has been hailed by figures as diverse as Seamus Heaney, Kathleen Raine, John Ashbery, David Gascoyne, James Merill, Richard Hell, Bjork, Pete Doherty and JG Ballard.



Above the Waves continues Jeremy and Lisa's exploration of her highly saturated vividly coloured images of the nature of her Arroyo Grande home and Jeremy's poetic response to them as established in their earlier works Big Orange Day (2010) and Exploding into Colour (2012).



Jeremy and Lisa's epistolary friendship began in 2003 and, in 2007 following a family tragedy, Jeremy encouraged Lisa to deepen her involvement with photography. Lisa say's, "It's amazing what you can share with someone through visuals. Jeremy taught me how to give the observer an experience."





Lisa, Jeremy and the Ginger Light, Jeremy's musical collaboration, are also the creators of Orange Sunshine Poetry, a project whereby Lisa exhibits videos created by the Ginger Light for her and recordings of Jeremy's talks which she shares with Californian's at public events in her home state.