New books for 2010 ...
Reality Street announces four new titles to be published in 2010. Help support the press by subscribing in advance - for a cost of £35 (UK/Europe) or £45 (elsewhere) you can join the list of sponsors of these books and receive them when they are published. Click here for details. | Bill Griffiths: Reality
Street is collaborating with West House Books to bring together for the
first time the late Bill Griffiths' poetry up until 1980 (ie all the work preceding that in Salt Publishing's The Mud Fort). The text, edited by Alan Halsey and Ken Edwards, includes the full "Cycles" and "War w/ Windsor" sequences that so astonished readers when they first appeared, plus much other poetry that was published by his own Pirate Press imprint, Writers Forum and other small presses during the 1970s. |
Bill Griffiths was a poet, Anglo-Saxon scholar, book designer, small press publisher, biker,
houseboat owner, pianist, archivist and social historian who late
in his career moved from London to North East England where he reinvigorated
the study of the region's dialect. He died in 2007 at the age of 59. | Jim Goar: SEOUL BUS POEMS Jim Goar was born in San Francisco,
California. Since then he’s lived in Tucson, Arizona; Changsha, China; Boulder,
Colorado; Bangkok, Thailand; Seoul, South Korea; Norwich, England; and whenever
possible, Brevard, North Carolina. He studied prose at Naropa’s Jack Kerouac School and poetry at The
University of East Anglia. He edits the online Journal,
past simple. Seoul Bus Poems will be his first perfect bound book.Read samples of his poetry here, here and here. Get this book as part of a Supporter subscription... |
 | Fanny Howe: EMERGENCE
Born in Buffalo, NY, and brought up in Boston, Fanny Howe attended Stanford University. She later worked in California and New York, and for some years as professor of literature at the University of California, San Diego. Her recent collections of poetry include Selected Poems (2000), which won the 2001 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. She was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2001 and 2005. Prose fiction includes The Lives of a Spirit / Glasstown: Where Something Got Broken (2005) and Nod (1998) among many others. Cover art by David Miller May 2010, 978-1-874400-47-9, 64pp, price £7.50 |
Fanny Howe's new book for Reality Street, her first since .jpg) | Richard Makin: DWELLING Richard Makin is a writer, poet and artist. Dwelling was serialised electronically by Great Works
(2006-09) under the working title of ‘St Leonards’. It is the second in
a trilogy of books. The first of these, ‘Work’, was also published
serially by Great Works (2003-06). Poems from his long sequence ‘Rift Designs’ are published in The Reality Street Book Of Sonnets. Other publications include Forword and Universlipre, both from Equipage. Read the online unrevised version ("St Leonards") here Get this book as part of a Supporter subscription... |
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Recent highlights and bestsellers
| Readings by Reality Street authors...Tue 22 June 2010 - Fanny Howe reading with Tom Raworth at The Blue Bus, London - more details to come.
Two parallel bands of text: fragmented dream narratives and found material including the word "dream".
Her first collection since her Selected Poems in 2002.
"...hypnagogic derangement as the urban dream dissolves before our eyes."- Iain Sinclair |
