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REALITY STREET is distributing the first full-length album by The Moors. Click here to listen to all 12 tracks online and buy as a CD or download.

Four books to be launched in 2012

Reality Street will launch four books this year. Support the press and do yourself a favour by joining the Reality Street Supporters scheme - you will receive all four and be named as a benefactor.

Paul Brown:
A CABIN IN THE MOUNTAINS

Poet, editor, publisher and translator Paul Brown has been absent from the poetry scene for some years. This complete collection of his poetry from the 1980s, the lost third of a trilogy (the first two books were Meetings & Pursuits (1978) and Masker (1982)), is long overdue.

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May 2012, 978-1-874400-56-1, 108pp, price £9

Maggie O'Sullivan: WATERFALLS

At last the paperback version of a book only previously available as a limited edition from Etruscan Books. Five visually rich text sequences originally dating from the 1990s.

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May 2012, 978-1-874400-57-8, 82pp, price £9

Sean Pemberton: WHITE

An unusual novel that carefully tracks the events in a city over a few days in high summer, in alternating prose and open-field verse. An English nouveau roman?

Sean Pemberton was born in Worcester in 1963, grew up in Malawi and Zambia, and now lives in Derry, Northern Ireland. He has had short stories published in Fire and The Text. This is his first novel.

Autumn 2012, 978-1-874400-59-2, 500pp approx, price £14.50

THE ALCHEMIST'S MIND:
A book of narrative prose by poets

An anthology edited by David Miller in collaboration with Ken Edwards. Contributors to include: Barbara Guest, Lee Harwood, Ian Robinson, Rosmarie Waldrop, Robert Sheppard, Bernadette Mayer, Paul Buck, Lyn Hejinian, M J Weller, Brian Marley, Johan de Wit, John Levy, Vahni Capildeo, Paul Haines, Lawrence Fixel, Robert Lax, Fanny Howe, David Miller, Keith Waldrop, Giles Goodland, bpNichol, David Rattray, Guy Birchard, Will Petersen, Tom Lowenstein, Kristin Prevallet, Stephen Watts, Daphne Marlatt.

Autumn 2012, 978-1-874400-58-5, 300pp approx, price £12.50

Live events...

Saturday 5 May 2012 - Peter Jaeger reads at the Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol

Saturday 26 May 2012 – Richard Makin and others launching VLAK 3, 7-8pm; and Maggie O’Sullivan (pictured) with Abdullah al-Udhari, Keston Sutherland, Joan Retallack, Ulli Freer, Mark Nowak, 8-11pm at Polyply, 16 Acton St, London WC1

Wednesday 6 June 2012 - Peter Jaeger reads at Xing the Line, The Apple Tree, 45 Mount Pleasant, London WC1X 2AE, 7.30pm, admission £5 (£3 concs)

Wednesday 6 June 2012 - Cris Cheek reads with Steve McCaffery and Karen Mac Cormack in the Keynes Library, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD, 7.30-9.00pm, all welcome

Saturday 9 June 2012 - Jeff Hilson with Nerys Williams, Tim Atkins, Sophie Robinson (2.00pm) and Tony Lopez with Ulli Freer (7.30pm) at the HAY POETRY JAMBOREE, Oriel Gallery of Contemporary Arts, Salem Chapel, Bell Bank, Hay on Wye. Entrance to 7.30 events £5 (concs £3), all other events £2 (concs £1). More info and bookings here.

Tuesday 12 June - Peter Jaeger

reads at The Other Room, Manchester

Tuesday 11 September 2012 - Maggie O'Sullivan and Paul Brown launch their Reality Street books at The Blue Bus, The Lamb, 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London WC1 - 8.00pm, £5 (£3 concs)

Recent highlights and bestsellers

Richard Makin: DWELLING

This immense work, without recognisable characters or plot, offers a fractured panorama of the conditions of living now.

Leopold Haas:
THE RAFT

An intriguing prose narrative based on the story of the Raft of the Medusa, re-imagined and following serial methods.

Carol Watts: OCCASIONALS

Carol's second book for Reality Street, a poem sequence spanning a year – a modern Shepherd's Calendar.

Bill Griffiths:
COLLECTED EARLIER POEMS

The definitive collection of the late Bill Griffiths' work of the 1960s/70s.

Allen Fisher: PLACE

The first complete edition of this legendary poetic project of the 1970s: five books, previously scattered in various unobtainable editions, now collected in one volume.

Ken Edwards:
NOSTALGIA FOR UNKNOWN CITIES

An unnamed narrator recalls a series of unidentified cities. "Hypnagogic derangement as the urban dream dissolves before our eyes" - Iain Sinclair

Johan de Wit:
GERO NIMO

60 characters baffled by the warps and swerves of the sentences which conjured them up.

James Davies:
PLANTS

A first poetry collection from the editor of if p then q.

Paul Griffiths:
LET ME TELL YOU

An extraordinary novel composed entirely of the vocabulary Ophelia is allotted in Hamlet.

THE REALITY STREET BOOK OF SONNETS

With 84 contributors, this anthology explores the myriad ways poets have stretched, deconstructed and re-composed the sonnet.

Denise Riley:
SELECTED POEMS

The most complete collection of Denise Riley's poetry available, including "Mop Mop Georgette". First published in 2000 and still a poetry bestseller.

OUT OF EVERYWHERE

Linguistically innovative poetry by women - a classic, still in print and selling after a decade and a half. Edited by Maggie O'Sullivan.

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