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Posted by Ken Edwards on Thursday, February 4, 2010,
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Yesterday (Wednesday 3 February) I travelled to BBC Broadcasting House in London to record an interview with the redoubtable Ian McMillan for Radio 3's The Verb about Bill Griffiths' Collected Earlier Poems. The poet Sean Bonney was also interviewed about what Bill had meant to him. I hope they'll also be broadcasting a snippet of Bill reading from a CD I took in.  We talked a bit about how Bill was just getting known towards the end of his life for his work on Geordie pit dialect - indeed, I... Continue reading ...
Posted by Ken Edwards on Wednesday, January 27, 2010,
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We interrupt this series to pose a question. Recently, a couple of authors who have Reality Street books forthcoming have enquired about e-book versions of their published work. Am I planning to make such available? Or if not, do they retain the right to do so? The answer to the first question is that I haven't given it much thought, but a moment's reflection suggests that there isn't (yet) a history of readers willing to pay for e-book versions of small press poetry collections and works of im... Continue reading ...
Posted by Ken Edwards on Wednesday, December 23, 2009,
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Santa Claus arrived early this week in the guise of the courier from Reality Street's printers, delivering eleven large packets containing brand new copies of Bill Griffiths' Collected Earlier Poems. It looks good, and it really is the first occasion on which Bill's poems (up to 1980) have been properly put into their historical context.  So I shall spend some time during and possibly after the holidays re-packing them to send out to all you kind people who have subscribed to it or have become ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Ken Edwards on Monday, November 16, 2009,
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The Small Publishers Fair at the Conway Hall (13/14 November) was good, if not quite great. There seemed to be more presses exhibiting their wares than ever before, and it was encouraging to see more poetry presses to balance out the artists' book people - eg Shearsman, attending for the first time. I'd never been for the whole of the Friday before this year, and was surprised at how much activity there was throughout that day. It made me anticipate a truly overwhelming Saturday, but it never ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Ken Edwards on Wednesday, November 11, 2009,
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Once again, I'm attending the annual Small Publishers Fair in London this coming weekend on behalf of Reality Street. As I don't have a day job any longer, I shall for the first time be able to man the stand on the Friday as well as the Saturday. I'll be bringing as much stock as I can carry on the train in a wheelie bag and a shoulder bag, which should include copies of most of Reality Street's titles published over the past five or six years - plus some oldies but goodies and slight seconds... Continue reading ...
Posted by Ken Edwards on Tuesday, September 1, 2009,
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Today Reality Street publishes
Botsotso: an anthology of contemporary South African poetry. Here's what I wrote for the preface of the book:  In April 2004, at the Cambridge Conference of Contemporary Poetry (CCCP), I encountered Ike Mboneni Muila from Soweto. He had previously been compared by someone to Tom Raworth, for his high-octane delivery. Opening the Saturday evening session, he amazed me by riffing flawlessly and rapidly in several languages: Afrikaans, English and more than one nativ...
This Tuesday (12 May) I am travelling to London to host the launch reading at the Calder Bookshop of the latest Reality Street books - by Wendy Mulford and Peter Jaeger. Everyone is welcome - see the Reality Street home page for details. I am pleased that we are doing a book by Wendy. Although she is no longer involved with Reality Street, she is a co-founder of it - part of its heritage is Street Editions, which published Prynne, Raworth, John James, Veronica Forrest-Thomson, Denise Riley and... Continue reading ...
Posted by Ken Edwards on Wednesday, April 1, 2009,
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Last week I announced Reality Street's forthcoming publication of David Bromige's Collected Poems. Work on that essential volume is only just getting going, but in the meantime our other major current project, a collection of Bill Griffiths' poetry from his earliest work up until 1980 - the period that roughly precedes the Salt collection The Mud Fort - has progressed apace. Bill (pictured above) died in 2007. You can read my obituary of him here. He was a poet of wonderful invention and ener... Continue reading ...
I'm delighted to confirm that Reality Street will be collaborating with New Star Books, Vancouver, Canada, to co-publish David Bromige's Collected Poems. The book is being edited by Ron Silliman with help from Bob Perelman. We're hoping to get it ready next year (2010).  David (pictured above by Andrea Auge) is not currently in the best of health but he's looking forward to this. There has been some confusion about whether the collection would be limited to David's later books, but I can confirm... Continue reading ...
Supporters and regular readers may like to know that The Land Between by Wendy Mulford and Rapid Eye Movement by Peter Jaeger, both featured on our home page, are now in press. I hope copies will be available within the next few weeks, in good time for the official launch on 12 May. I am very pleased with them, and I shall have more to say about them both before they are published. Meanwhile, Richard Makin's forthcoming book, provisionally titled St Leonards, now has the new title Dwelling. Ric... Continue reading ...
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I'm the editor and publisher of Reality Street, and a writer and musician.
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