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New books by Edwards and Terry now on sale

In May 2013 Reality Street launched its first new titles of the year.

Ken Edwards' collection of prose fictions, Down With Beauty, and Philip Terry's Oulipian novel reinventing the Norman Conquest, tapestry, were published simultaneously.

Later in the year they will be followed by poetry collections from Andrea Brady and Peter Hughes.

All four books form the 2013 Reality Street Supporter programme. Please visit the Supporter scheme page to find out about the scheme and join up.

 

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

Ken Edwards: DOWN WITH BEAUTY

DOWN WITH BEAUTY explores, in a series of linked dialogues, dramatic monologues and short fictions, the themes of exile, the aftermath of war, paranoia, improvised music and nothingness. The collection is completed with the full text of NOSTALGIA FOR UNKNOWN CITIES, previously published separately.  Some samples here, here and here - others will be revealed.

KEN EDWARDS is the publisher of Reality Street and author of several books of poetry and prose. He lives in Hastings, on the south coast of England, where he currently plays bass guitar with The Moors.

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May 2013, 978-1-874400-61-5, 240pp, price £10.50

Philip Terry: TAPESTRY

Taking as its starting point marginal images in the Bayeux Tapestry, which have been left largely unexplained by historians, Terry retells the story of the Norman Conquest from the point of view of the tapestry’s English embroiderers. Combining magic realism and Oulipian techniques, this is a tour de force of narrative and language.

PHILIP TERRY was born in Belfast, and is currently Director of Creative Writing at the University of Essex.

Review by Nicholas Lezard in The Guardian

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May 2013, 978-1-874400-62-2, 242pp, price £10.50


To be published later in 2013...

 

Andrea Brady: CUT FROM THE RUSHES

(Please note slight change of title.) US-born Andrea Brady has lived in Britain since 1996. She is director of the Archive of the Now and co-publisher of Barque Press. Cut from the Rushes will be her first poetry collection for Reality Street.

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Sept 2013, 978-1-874400-63-9, 134pp, price £9.50


Peter Hughes:
ALLOTMENT ARCHITECTURE

Peter Hughes is a poet, painter, musician and the publisher of Oystercatcher Press. This remarkable new collection takes us with wry humour from a reference to John (Adge) Cutler taut within a sonnet to a deeply moving account of when Hector Berlioz found his ‘innerness’ stewed by seeing Harriet Smithson play Ophelia.

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Sept 2013, 978-1-874400-64-6, 148pp, price £9.50

Live events...

Tuesday 18 June 2013 - Amid the Ruins at the Daniel Blau Gallery, 51 Hoxton Sq, London N1 6PB, with readings and performances by Allen Fisher (pictured), Kristen Kreider/James O'Leary and Stephen Willey, 7.00pm

Thursday 20 June 2013 – Peter Jaeger and Holly Pester read at the Kingsgate Gallery, London NW6, 7.30pm

Saturday 13 July 2013 – Richard Makin reads with Iain Sinclair at Genius Loci bookstore, 40 Norman Rd, St Leonards on Sea TN38 0EJ

Tuesday 16 July 2013 – Johan de Wit  and Antony John read at The Blue Bus, 7.30pm at The Lamb (in the upstairs room), 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London WC1, £5/£3 conc

Saturday 7 September – Reality Street will have a stand at Free Verse, the Poetry Book Fair at the Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1, 10am-5pm


This listing is for events featuring Reality Street authors. Please email details of suitable forthcoming events to the press.

Recent highlights and bestsellers

Sean Pemberton: 
WHITE

Close descriptions of an unnamed city during a single day in summer in alternating prose and open-field sections, in dispassionate prose.

Paul Brown:
A CABIN IN THE MOUNTAINS

A book that should have appeared 30 years ago but didn't - completing a trilogy of poetry collections. 

Richard Makin: DWELLING

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

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.  


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.

Maggie O'Sullivan:
WATERFALLS

Paperback reprint of a poetic/visual work previously only available as a limited edition.


David Miller (ed.):
THE ALCHEMIST'S MIND
A collection of diverse, radical prose narratives by 28 poets, including Barbara Guest, Fanny Howe, Lyn Hejinian, Lee Harwood. 

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. 

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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