Wrecking Ball Press
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Wrecking Ball Press is a small press
poetry & prose publishing company, based in Hull
, East Riding of Yorkshire
, UK. Wrecking Ball Press was established and is edited by Shane Rhodes; it was born in the back of a café.
Wrecking Ball Press produces regular anthology 'The Reater' as well as live events. Other publications include Dan Fante
Corksucker, Richard Adams (author) Daniel, Roddy Lumsden
Roddy Lumsden is Dead, Ben Myers
The Book Of Fuck and Tony O'Neill
Digging the Vein.
Small press
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poetry & prose publishing company, based in Hull
Kingston upon Hull
Kingston upon Hull , usually referred to as Hull, is a city and unitary authority area in the ceremonial county of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It stands on the River Hull at its junction with the Humber estuary, 25 miles inland from the North Sea. Hull has a resident population of...
, East Riding of Yorkshire
East Riding of Yorkshire
The East Riding of Yorkshire, or simply East Yorkshire, is a local government district with unitary authority status, and a ceremonial county of England. For ceremonial purposes the county also includes the city of Kingston upon Hull, which is a separate unitary authority...
, UK. Wrecking Ball Press was established and is edited by Shane Rhodes; it was born in the back of a café.
Wrecking Ball Press produces regular anthology 'The Reater' as well as live events. Other publications include Dan Fante
Dan Fante
Dan Fante is an American author and playwright.Chump Change, Mooch,"86'd" and Spitting Off Tall Buildings comprise a trilogy, based around Fante's hard living alter-ego Bruno Dante. Chump Change found publication in France originally, before being published in the US by Sun Dog Press...
Corksucker, Richard Adams (author) Daniel, Roddy Lumsden
Roddy Lumsden
Roddy Lumsden is a Scottish poet, who was born in St Andrews. He has published five collections of poetry, a number of chapbooks and a collection of trivia, as well as editing a generational anthology of British and Irish poets of the 1990s and 2000s, Identity Parade, among other...
Roddy Lumsden is Dead, Ben Myers
Ben Myers
Ben Myers is an English writer.His first novel The Book Of Fuck, a fictionalised account about a hapless music journalist, was published to underground acclaim in 2004 through Wrecking Ball Press. Myers claimed it was written in six days "as a joke"...
The Book Of Fuck and Tony O'Neill
Tony O'Neill
Tony O'Neill is a New York-based author. A one time musician with Kenickie , Marc Almond , The Brian Jonestown Massacre and Kelli Ali , O'Neill is also the author of several books including Digging The Vein 2006, Down and Out on Murder Mile 2008 and Sick City 2010.Digging the Vein was a novel...
Digging the Vein.
Some Writers and Poets Appearing on Wrecking Ball Press
- 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 ClearyBrendan ClearyBrendan Cleary is a poet who was born in Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland but lives in England.-Early years:Cleary attended Carrickfergus Grammar School in Northern Ireland. He moved from Northern Ireland in 1977 to Middlesbrough, a large town in northeast England, in order to attend Teesside...
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 FanteDan FanteDan Fante is an American author and playwright.Chump Change, Mooch,"86'd" and Spitting Off Tall Buildings comprise a trilogy, based around Fante's hard living alter-ego Bruno Dante. Chump Change found publication in France originally, before being published in the US by Sun Dog Press...
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 forward by UK comedian and writer Sean LockSean LockSean Lock is an English comedian and actor. He began his comedy career as a stand-up comedian. He won the British Comedy Award in 2000 in the category of Best Live Comic, and was nominated for the Perrier Comedy Award. He is also well known for his appearances on television and radio...
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- Gerald LocklinGerald LocklinGerald Locklin is an American poet who is a Professor Emeritus of English at California State University, Long Beach and the poetry editor of Chiron Review...
the case of the missing blue volkswagen ISBN 1-903110-01-7
- Roddy LumsdenRoddy LumsdenRoddy Lumsden is a Scottish poet, who was born in St Andrews. He has published five collections of poetry, a number of chapbooks and a collection of trivia, as well as editing a generational anthology of British and Irish poets of the 1990s and 2000s, Identity Parade, among other...
Roddy Lumsden is Dead ISBN 1-903110-08-4
- Daithidh MacEochaidh
Travels with Chinaski ISBN 1-903110-23-8
- Ben MyersBen MyersBen Myers is an English writer.His first novel The Book Of Fuck, a fictionalised account about a hapless music journalist, was published to underground acclaim in 2004 through Wrecking Ball Press. Myers claimed it was written in six days "as a joke"...
The Book of Fuck ISBN 1-903110-15-7
- Tony O'NeillTony O'NeillTony O'Neill is a New York-based author. A one time musician with Kenickie , Marc Almond , The Brian Jonestown Massacre and Kelli Ali , O'Neill is also the author of several books including Digging The Vein 2006, Down and Out on Murder Mile 2008 and Sick City 2010.Digging the Vein was a novel...
Digging the Vein ISBN 1-903110-18-1
- Milner Place
caminante ISBN 1-903110-12-2
- Eva SalzmanEva SalzmanEva Salzman is a noted contemporary American poet.Eva Salzman was born in 1960 in New York City, and grew up in Brooklyn where – from the age of 10 until 22 – she was a dancer and later a choreographer. She was educated at Bennington College and Columbia University, moving to Britain in 1985...
ONE TWO II ISBN 1-903110-09-2
- Jules Smith
ART, SURVIVAL AND SO FORTH: The Poetry of Charles BukowskiCharles BukowskiHenry Charles Bukowski was an American poet, novelist and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural and economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles...
ISBN 1-903110-03-3
- Adam Strickson
An Indian Rug surprised by Snow ISBN 0-903110-25-4
- Jon SmithJon SmithJon Smith is a British writer of fiction, non-fiction, screenplays and musical theatre.-Biography:Jon Smith was brought up in Merseyside, where he remained until he was eighteen. He studied for a degree in American Studies at the University of Reading which included a semester at the University of...
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 ArmitageSimon ArmitageSimon Armitage CBE is a British poet, playwright, and novelist.-Life and career:Simon Armitage was born in Marsden, West Yorkshire. Armitage first studied at Colne Valley High School, Linthwaite, Huddersfield and went on to study geography at Portsmouth Polytechnic...
, Geoff Hattersley, Labbi Siffre, Greta Stoddart, and the first ever published interview with Charles BukowskiCharles BukowskiHenry Charles Bukowski was an American poet, novelist and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural and economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles...
(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