Wrecking Ball Press
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Wrecking Ball Press is an independent poetry and prose publishing company, based in Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It was established and is edited by Shane Rhodes.{{cite web|url=http://wreckingballpress.com/about-us/|title=about us |website=wreckingballpress.com|access-date=24 March 2017}}
Wrecking Ball Press produces a regular anthology, The Reater, as well as live events. Its other publications include Dan Fante's Corksucker, Richard Adams' Daniel, Roddy Lumsden's Roddy Lumsden is Dead, Ben Myers' The Book Of Fuck and Tony O'Neill's Digging the Vein.
Some writers and poets appearing on ''Wrecking Ball Press''
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- Richard Adams (author)
Daniel {{ISBN|1-903110-37-8}} (hb) {{ISBN|1-903110-36-X}} (special signed edition) - Elizabeth Barrett
The Bat Detector {{ISBN|1-903110-27-0}} - Matthew Caley
The Scene of my Former Triumph {{ISBN|1-903110-29-7}} - Brendan Cleary
Stranger in the House {{ISBN|1-903110-06-8}} - Tim Cumming
Contact Print {{ISBN|1-903110-10-6}} - Fiona Curran
The Hail Mary Pass {{ISBN|1-903110-41-6}} - Dan Fante
Corksucker {{ISBN|1-903110-26-2}}
A Gin Pissing, Raw Meat, Dual Carburettor V-8 Son-of-a-Bitch from Los Angeles {{ISBN|1-903110-07-6}} - Geoff Hattersley
Harmonica {{ISBN|1-903110-11-4}} - Mark Kotting
Nappy Rash {{ISBN|1-903110-16-5}} with foreword by UK comedian and writer Sean Lock. - Gerald Locklin
the case of the missing blue volkswagen {{ISBN|1-903110-01-7}} - Roddy Lumsden
Roddy Lumsden is Dead {{ISBN|1-903110-08-4}} - Daithidh MacEochaidh
Travels with Chinaski {{ISBN|1-903110-23-8}} - Ben Myers
The Book of Fuck {{ISBN|1-903110-15-7}} - Tony O'Neill
Digging the Vein {{ISBN|1-903110-18-1}} - Milner Place
caminante {{ISBN|1-903110-12-2}} - Eva Salzman
ONE TWO II {{ISBN|1-903110-09-2}} - Jules Smith
ART, SURVIVAL AND SO FORTH: The Poetry of Charles Bukowski {{ISBN|1-903110-03-3}} - Adam Strickson
An Indian Rug surprised by Snow {{ISBN|978-1-903110-25-6}} - Jon Smith
Toytopia {{ISBN|1-903110-24-6}}
Anthologies
- The Reater
- Reater 1 {{ISBN|1-903110-13-0}}
New British writing with the best of Southern California: great names of L.A./Long Beach literature, with photographs by James Brown & Simon Rees. - Reater 2 {{ISBN|1-903110-14-9}}
Contributors include Seamus Curran, Joan Jobe Smith, Fred Voss, with artwork by Kevin Rudeforth. - Reater 3 {{ISBN|1-903110-00-9}}
Contributors include Simon Armitage, Geoff Hattersley, Labbi Siffre, Greta Stoddart, and the first ever published interview with Charles Bukowski (1963), with artwork by David Hernandez. - Reater 4 {{ISBN|1-903110-02-5}}
From the East Coast of Britain to the West Coast of the States; with accompanying CD of live readings by authors, and paintings by Jayne Jones. - Reater 5 {{ISBN|1-903110-04-1}}
Contributors include Sean Burn, Robert Nazarene, B. Z. Niditch and Rosemary Palmeira, with paintings by Dee Rimbaud.
Awards and nominations
Nominated for The Forward Prize for Best First Collection
- Matthew Caley
The Scene of my Former Triumph {{ISBN|1-903110-18-1}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.wreckingballpress.com/ Official website for Wrecking Ball Press]
- [http://www.wreckingballpress.com/html/reater.php The Reater]
- [http://books.guardian.co.uk/forward2006/0,,1819575,00.html Forward Prizes for Poetry - awards for contemporary poetry]
Category:Small press publishing companies