THE REALITY STREET BOOK OF SONNETS

With no fewer than 84 contributors, this is a truly groundbreaking anthology. There are plenty of modern sonnet anthologies around; but none that have delved so thoroughly into the myriad ways poets have stretched, deconstructed and re-composed the venerable form, including visual and concrete sonnets. We take as our time frame 1945 to the 21st century, with poets ranging from Edwin Denby (b. 1903) to those currently in their twenties. Jeff Hilson, the editor, contributes an introductory essay.

It's taken longer than expected to get this large, complex book into production. Originally scheduled for 2007, it has now been published in late spring 2008 - but all 2007 Supporter Subscribers will receive a copy.

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Contributors: Robert Adamson, Jeremy Adler, Tim Atkins, Ted Berrigan, Jen Bervin, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Christian Bök, Sean Bonney, Ebbe Borregaard, Jonathan Brannen, Pam Brown, Laynie Browne, Thomas A Clark, Adrian Clarke, John Clarke, Bob Cobbing, Clark Coolidge, Kelvin Corcoran, Beverly Dahlen, Ian Davidson, Edwin Denby, Laurie Duggan, Paul Dutton, Ken Edwards, Michael Farrell, Allen Fisher, Kathleen Fraser, William Fuller, John Gibbens, Harry Gilonis, Giles Goodland, Bill Griffiths, Alan Halsey, Robert Hampson, Jeff Hilson, Anselm Hollo, Lyn Hejinian, Piers Hugill, Peter Jaeger, Elizabeth James, Lisa Jarnot, Keith Jebb, Justin Katko, John Kinsella, Philip Kuhn, Michelle Leggott, Tony Lopez, Chris McCabe, Steve McCaffery, Jackson Mac Low, Richard Makin, Peter Manson, Brian Marley, Bernadette Mayer, Jay Millar, David Miller, Peter Minter, Geraldine Monk, Harryette Mullen, Philip Nikolayev, Alice Notley, Abigail Oborne, Ron Padgett, Bern Porter, Frances Presley, John A Scott, Tom Raworth, Peter Riley, Sophie Robinson, Stephen Rodefer, Maurice Scully, Gavin Selerie, Robert Sheppard, Aaron Shurin, Eléni Sikélianòs, Simon Smith, Mary Ellen Solt, Juliana Spahr, Lawrence Upton, Carol Watts, Ian Wedde, John Welch, Johan de Wit, Geoffrey Young.

Spring 2008, 978-1-874400-39-4, 360pp , price £15.00

Our main publication programme for 2008/09

BOTSOTSO
An exciting anthology of contemporary multi-lingual, multi-ethnic poetry from post-apartheid South Africa, edited by Allan Kolski Horwitz & Ken Edwards. The contributors are: Donald Parenzee, Makhosazana Xaba, Bongekile Mbanjwa, Vonani Bila, Kobus Moolman, Anet Kemp, Allan Kolski Horwitz, Ike Mboneni Muila, Lisemelo Tlale, Clinton du Plessis, Sumeera Dawood, Siphiwe ka Ngwenya.

Summer 2008, 978-1-874400-42-4, 240pp , price £12.50

Paul Griffiths: LET ME TELL YOU
Short novel in the Oulipo tradition, using only the vocabulary allotted to Ophelia in Hamlet, a constraint which gives the discourse a haunting and poetic quality. Read an extract in Golden Handcuffs Review. Cover based on a painting by Howard Hodgkin. The author is also a well-known writer on contemporary and classical music.

Autumn 2008, 978-1-874400-43-1, 140pp , price £9.00

Peter Jaeger: RAPID EYE MOVEMENT
Dream narrative collaged from multiple sources, in two parallel bands, by a noted Canadian poet resident in the UK, author of Eckhart Cars (Salt, 2004).

Autumn 2008, 978-1-874400-41-7, 156pp , price £9.00

Wendy Mulford: THE LAND BETWEEN
New work since her Selected Poems, and suddenly, supposing... by Reality Street's co-founder. Originally scheduled for 2007, now to be published in spring 2009.

Spring 2009, 978-1-874400-44-8, 48pp , price £7.50

Sign up as a Reality Street Supporter for 2008/09 and get these four books - click here for details.

Further ahead...

Eugène Savitzkaya: BEING ALIVE

Originally scheduled for 2007, a first translation into English of this Belgian poet's prose narrative En Vie, by Paul Buck and Catherine Petit. More information soon. Around 80pp, expected price £9.

Fanny Howe: IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE
Her classic out of print novel (originally published by Fiction Collective) made available again. More details soon. Expected price: £12.50.

Richard Makin: ST LEONARDS
Non-narrative prose, currently being serialised on the Great Works website. Expected price: £9.

Bill Griffiths: COLLECTED POEMS 1968-1980
Reality Street collaborates with West House Books to bring together for the first time the late Bill Griffiths' works up until the 1980s. There will be updates here from time to time, but expect the book to be published in 2010.