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This book was selected by Iain Sinclair to be one of his Christmas recommendations for 2007: "Nostalgia for Unknown Cities by the poet Ken Edwards (Reality Street) is the wild card: hypnagogic derangement as the urban dream dissolves before our eyes." More details here.

REALITY STREET 4PACKS

 

Reality Street published a showcase series for new poets between 1996-2002. Each volume featured four poets who had not at the time of commissioning had a substantial book of their own published, and who were working in the innovative and modernist traditions of other authors on the RSE list.

 

No 1
SLEIGHT OF FOOT

Miles Champion
Helen Kidd
Harriet Tarlo
Scott Thurston

 

The first in the series presents mini-collections by Champion and Kidd, poem sequences from Tarlo and Thurston.

 

1996 1-874400-10-5, price £5.00, 80pp

 

No 2
VITAL MOVEMENT

Andy Brown
Jennifer Chalmers
Mike Higgins
Ira Lightman

 

The second volume in the series shows prose by Andy Brown, a single, lyrical sequence called “Affording Yellow” by Jennifer Chalmers, a process piece, “Rain rain, rain” by Mike Higgins and a Cageian mescrostic and process sequence by Ira Lightman.

 

1998 1-874400-14-8, price £5.00, 80pp

 

No 3
NEW TONAL LANGUAGE

Patricia Farrell
Shelby Matthews
Simon Perril
Keston Sutherland

 

"Sumptuousness conceptually researched ... no frontier to this territory ... micro-tonal erotics of location ... cut: the word here is pow,/experience flashes out with it from us." Poetry and prose without boundaries.

 

1999 1-874400-18-0, price £5.00, 80pp

 

No 4
RENGA +

The fourth and last in the series.

Guy Barker: Hero & Leander, a poem sequence
Elizabeth James/Peter Manson: Two Renga, a collaboration
Christine Kennedy: The White Lady's Casket, text from an installation

 

Funding from London Arts gratefully acknowledged.

 

2002 1-874400-19-9, price £5.00, 58pp

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