May 31, 2013
In a rare (for Reality Street) emergence into the arclights of national newspaper coverage, Philip Terry's amazing novel tapestry, just published this month, has been given the thumbs up in Nicholas Lezard's weekly column in The Guardian. The online version appeared last Tuesday (28 May) and is in the print edition on Saturday 1 June. And yes, it is "a nice touch that the publisher is based in Hastings". Our first "local interest" book, I think.
Posted by Ken Edwards. Posted In : Reality Street
May 30, 2013
The news that Salt Publishing is pulling out of doing single-author poetry collections may have made Carol Ann Duffy "extremely sad" but has met with a more considered response elsewhere.
Salt were in many respects pioneers, and, as I have mentioned before in this space, Reality Street would probably not be surviving now had I not been impressed with Chris Hamilton-Emery's blazing a trail in print-on-demand publishing.
But, as I have also said before, the idea of trying to make a profit out of ... Continue reading...
Posted by Ken Edwards. Posted In : writing
May 23, 2013
 The German poet and lyricist Sarah Kirsch died on 5 May following a short illness. Born Ingrid Bernstein in what later became East Germany, she changed her name to Sarah in protest against Nazi anti-semitism. Later political protest caused her to leave for the West. Sarah Kirsch's pamphlet, the poem sequence T, with a parallel English translation by Wendy Mulford and Anthony Vivis, was published by Reality Street in 1995. It's a beautiful little item, physically quite unlike the rest of Reality... Continue reading...
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May 1, 2013
I'll be launching Down With Beauty and Philip Terry will launch tapestry with readings at The Blue Bus, on Tuesday 21st May, from 7.30 at The Lamb (in the upstairs room), 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London WC1. Admissions: £5 / £3 (concessions). The books will be on sale at the special launch price of £10 each – or if you can't get there, you can buy them online. Or join the Reality Street Supporter scheme to get these and other books published in 2013. 
Ken Edwards: Down With Beauty A seri... Continue reading...
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April 30, 2013
 The sixteenth issue of the enterprising Golden Handcuffs Review is now out. A thing I like about the magazine is that, highly unusually for US literary journals, it features British and Irish writers as a matter of course. No "special British issue", no tokenism. In this issue are David Miller (the intro from The Alchemist's Mind), Maurice Scully, Brian Marley, Paul Griffiths and, er, me. Also Peter Quartermain, who is a Brit living in Vancouver. And in addition: Robert Kelly, Hank Lazer, Da... Continue reading...
Posted by Ken Edwards. Posted In : writing
March 6, 2013
To Oxford last week (the proof copy of Philip Terry’s tapestry arrived just as we were leaving) to hear a rare performance of "There's something in there" - a piece composed a few years ago by John Tilbury using my words. Maybe a dozen or so red kites wheeling and hovering over the M40 around Beaconsfield, their forked tails slanting like rudders, as the sun started to emerge. I've never seen one before, and didn't realise they had got quite so common in this part of the world. The concert w...
Posted by Ken Edwards. Posted In : music
March 4, 2013
OOE, edited by Maggie O'Sullivan, has been selling steadily since it was published. A "daughter of OOE" anthology has long been planned, and may appear next year, edited by Emily Critchley. Continue reading...
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February 19, 2013
Reality Street is stirring back into life. Reality Street would support a parliamentary bill to abolish January and February, but it's nearly over. We've had the flu, and before that, the less said about the norovirus the better. Believe me. Philip Terry's weird and wonderful post-1066 novel tapestry, using the Bayeux images to weave stories in an alternative Middle English about alternative histories of the Norman Conquest, is almost ready to go to press.My own Down With Beauty follows short... Continue reading...
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January 31, 2013
 Sad to report this morning that poet, teacher and translator Anselm Hollo has died, aged 78. I never actually met Anselm, but we corresponded extensively during the editing and production of Five From Finland in 2000-01 - his translations of five contemporary poets from his native Finland. He was good to work with.
He was also a very considerable influence on poetry in English (his chosen language) on both sides of the Atlantic from the 1960s onward.Read Tom Raworth's obituary of Anselm in The... Continue reading...
Posted by Ken Edwards. Posted In : writing
December 17, 2012
Here's a review by Michael Peverett of A Cabin in the Mountains.  Michael has also interviewed Richard Makin about Dwelling. Continue reading...
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