Patti Smith has announced she will release a brand new book.
The influential music star, known as the “punk poet laureate”, has written many books in the past, one of which – her memoir Just Kids – won the National Book Award in 2010.
Smith’s new book, titled A Book of Days, has been inspired by something that musician’s fans might not have been expecting: her Instagram account.
Writing on the social media site on Wednesday (9 March), Smith stated: “It is a year of reflections and images, inspired by my Instagram, but original throughout.”
She continued: “The fruit of much labor, populated by sacred ghosts, and celebrating the new.”
The book will be published by Random House later this year.
Smith released her first book, a collection of poems called Seventh Heaven, in 1972 – three years before her debut album, Horses.
The musician turned 75 in December 2021, which she belatedly celebrated by putting on a show in New York on 25 February.
