James Davies and Carol Watts, authors of the two most recent Reality Street titles, will be on BBC Radio 4’s The Verb next month. More on Ken Edwards’ blog: http://www.realitystreet.co.uk/kens-blog/reality-street-on-the-verb
Reality Street
James Davies reads from Plants
Film from James Davies’ reading at The International Anthony Burgess foundation available here.
James Davies and David Gaffney book launches
An invitation to celebrate the launches of
David Gaffney’s The Half-Life of Songs published by Salt (www.saltpublishing.com/books/smf/1844712923.htm)
and
James Davies’ Plants published by Reality Street (www.realitystreet.co.uk)
May 10th, 6.30pm
The International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Cambridge Street, Manchester
This is a FREE event
David Gaffney lives in Manchester and Durham. He is the author of Sawn Off Tales (2006), Aromabingo (2007), Never Never (2008), Buildings Crying Out, a story using lost cat posters (Lancaster litfest 2009), 23 Stops To Hull a set of stories about every junction on the M62 (Humber Mouth festival 2009) Sawn off opera a set of operas with composer Ailis Ni Riain (Radio Three, RNCM, Liverpool philharmonic and tete a tete festival London 2010 ) Destroy PowerPoint, stories in PowerPoint format for Edinburgh festival 2009, the Poole Confessions stories told in a mobile confessional box (Poole Literature festival 2010) and he has written articles for the Guardian, Sunday Times, Financial Times and Prospect magazine. His new collection of short stories, The Half-Life of Songs, is out now, and look out for his current project, Station Stories, in which six writer linked to the audience with wireless headphones, perform short stories in Manchester Piccadilly railway station. See http://www.davidgaffney.org for more.
James Davies is the author of Plants (Reality Street), The Manual Handling Process (Beard of Bees) and Acronyms (onedit); with Simon Taylor, as Joy as Tiresome Vandalism, aRb (if p then q) and Absolute Elsewhere (Knives Forks and Spoons). He edits if p then q (www.ifpthenq.co.uk) and is one of the organisers of The Other Room poetry night and website (www.theotherroom.org)
Reality Street launches ReScript
The imprint launches in January 2011 with two titles:
Dracula’s Precursors, a collection of three early vampire tales, including the neglected classic “The Mysterious Stranger” – with an introduction by David Annwn
The Ivory Gate, which includes later poems and fragments by Thomas Lovell Beddoes – edited with an introduction by Alan Halsey
More will appear in 2011. For more details, and to buy, go to
LINK
FUTURES by Ken Edwards reissued
FUTURES, Ken Edwards’ 1998 novel, has been reissued by Reality Street with a new cover, after briefly going out of print.
The narrative traces the paths taken on her bicycle by the protagonist, Eye, across and out of an unnamed city in the wake of an event she can’t remember. Her quest is to face her terror and retrieve the fragments of her life, which lie in the future that never quite arrives, until it does.
More here.
Reality Street: new titles and book launches
REALITY STREET
announces the launch of
Emergence
by Fanny Howe
on Tuesday 22 June at 7:30pm
at The Blue Bus,The Lamb, 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London WC1
Fanny Howe will be reading with Tom Raworth
(admission £5 / £3 concessions)
Also launching on this day will be
Seoul Bus Poems
by Jim Goar
Unfortunately, Jim can’t be here to read in person on this occasion.
You can buy these books at the launch, or via the Reality Street website, or here:
FANNY HOWE: LINK
JIM GOAR: LINK
If you would like to review either of these books, please reply to this email to request a copy: ken@realitystreet.co.uk
via Ken Edwards
BILL GRIFFITHS: COLLECTED EARLIER POEMS (1966-80)
We’ve already posted about this, but it’s well worth a reminder that Bill Griffiths’ Collected Earlier Poems (1966-80) is now available. Details of this and the upcoming Birkbeck launch event below, via Alan Halsey:
BILL GRIFFITHS: COLLECTED EARLIER POEMS (1966-80)
Published by Reality Street in association with West House Books
This volume brings together for the first time the late Bill Griffiths’ poetry up to ‘Building: The New London Hospital’. The text, edited by Alan Halsey in consultation with Ken Edwards, includes the full ‘Cycles’ and ‘War W/ Windsor’ sequences that so astonished readers when they first appeared, as well as much other poetry that was published by his own Pirate Press imprint, Writers Forum and other small presses during the 1970s; and also poems and performance texts that have only made fleeting appearances in ephemeral pamphlets and magazines, or have never been published before. The works are presented in largely chronological order. Comprehensive endnotes detail both the publishing history and (Griffiths having been an inveterate reviser) variations in texts and alternative versions.
368pp.
ISBN: 978 1874400 45 5
Publication date 29 January 2010
Pre-publication price £17.50 post free
(after January, £18 + post)
Orders to reality.street@virgin.net or info@westhousebooks.co.uk
LAUNCH at Birkbeck, Wednesday 17th February, 7.30
in Room 203, Clore Management Centre (Torrington Square, facing Birkbeck main entrance)
featuring a reading of the complete Cycles by Sean Bonney, Ken Edwards, Allen Fisher, Alan Halsey, Geraldine Monk & Maggie O’Sullivan
Bill Griffiths’ Collected Earlier Poems (1966-80)
Bill Griffiths’ Collected Earlier Poems (1966-80) will be published in January by Reality Street.
This is the first time this great, innovative poet’s work has been properly collected. The poetry included here was originally written and published in the 1960s and 70s, and immediately predates the work included in The Mud Fort. It includes the complete “Cycles”, War W/ Windsor”, “A History of the Solar System” and other sequences, as well as a multitude of other poems and and sets of poems, previously published in fugitive editions or not at all, presented in roughly chronological order. The volume is rounded off with Alan Halsey’s meticulous endnotes, detailing the original publishing history and variant texts.
You can obtain this book by:
You can also pre-order it at http://www.amazon.co.uk at £18 post free.
Bill Griffiths: Collected Earlier Poems (1966-80)
Edited & introduced by Alan Halsey & Ken Edwards
368pp
ISBN: 978 1874400 45 5
29 January 2010
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