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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.

Lisa Robertson
THE WEATHER

 

In 1997, Reality Street Editions co-published Lisa Robertson's acclaimed Debbie: an Epic with New Star Books, Vancouver, Canada. We are now pleased to repeat the collaboration by co-publishing The Weather, which was written following her six-month Judith E Wilson visiting fellowship at the University of Cambridge. Influenced by the BBC shipping forecast, Wordsworth’s The Prelude, Constable, Cobbett and others, The Weather is an energising brew.

 

Lisa Robertson has been active in the Kootenay School of Writing collective in Vancouver and is a former co-editor of Raddle Moon with Susan Clark and Catriona Strang. She now lives in France.

 

NOT FOR SALE IN THE USA/CANADA

 

2001 1-874400-22-9, price £7.50, 88pp

 

 

Lisa Robertson
DEBBIE: AN EPIC

 

Debbie: an Epic was this talented Canadian poet’s full debut in the UK. Debbie is playful, intelligent, audacious and wide-ranging in its lightly-worn learning: Girl Power meets Virgil meets Edith Sitwell. Published in association with New Star Books, Canada,

 

NOT FOR SALE IN THE USA/CANADA

 

1997 1-874400-12-1, price £7.50, 96pp

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