Ken Edwards

NOSTALGIA FOR UNKNOWN CITIES

The latest in Reality Street's narrative series is an obsessive cataloguing by an unnamed protagonist of real and imagined experiences in a succession of real and imaginary cities. Situated midway between poetic prose and narrative fiction, this is the author's most groundbreaking work yet. Illustrated with 21 black & white photographs.

Read an extract here (Golden Handcuffs Review site).

And read Paul A Green's extended essay on the book.

"...hypnagogic derangement as the urban dream dissolves before our eyes."- Iain Sinclair, The Observer

"Really a great sustained resilient and berserk piece of work." - Fanny Howe

Ken Edwards founded Reality Street Editions with Wendy Mulford. Click here for biographical information.

2007, 978-1-874400-40-0, price £8.50, 110pp

EIGHT+SIX

eight+six was Ken Edwards’ first major collection for nearly ten years, an integrated sequence of 98 personal poems that maintain a fractal energy at all levels.

"Like Ted Berrigan before him, Edwards has written sonnets that actualise the blur between reading, remembering, perceiving and thinking, by collage (or perhaps I should say by assemblage – you can glue in lines from a Wyatt poem, or from a lecture by Hejinian, but can't you glue in a conversation or how you observed a man "up to his wrists in engine" – you have to stand these next to the others.)" James Wilkes in Intercapillary Space

“These wild and virtuoso sonnets undermine the usual volta to produce amazing and unique constellations”. Marjorie Perloff

“Ken Edwards’ witty and wily 14-line airs on the liberation of everyday life from the snares of rote expectancy have me humming away my cares in waves of dares.” Charles Bernstein

2003 1-874400-25-3, price: £7.50, 112pp

FUTURES

Ken Edwards’ first published novel. It 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.

An extended response by JH Prynne to this book is available online at Golden Handcuffs Review.

1998 1-874400-13-X   £6.99, 156pp     

Non-Reality Street books:

GOOD SCIENCE

This 1992 collection can be purchased from Roof Books, New York, but Reality Street carries a small stock at £6 per copy plus postage in the UK.

NO PUBLIC LANGUAGE: Selected Poems 1975-1995

Six out-of-print books from two decades are made newly available in this volume from Shearsman Books, together with selections from a book that never appeared. Go to the Shearsman site for details.

BIRD MIGRATION IN THE 21st CENTURY

A recent (2006) 48pp saddle-stitch pamphlet from Spectacular Diseases, containing three related poem sequences about the Mediterranean, family, migration and memory. Copies are available for £6 plus postage from Reality Street, or send a cheque for £6.65 inc post to Paul Green, 83b London Rd, Peterborough PE2 9BS, or by emailing Reality Street.