Wrecking Ball Press

Wrecking Ball Press is an independent poetry & prose publishing company, based in Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. Wrecking Ball Press was established and is edited by Shane Rhodes; it was born in the back of a café.[1]

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.

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 Cleary
    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 Fante
    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 foreword by UK comedian and writer Sean Lock.
  • Gerald Locklin
    the case of the missing blue volkswagen ISBN 1-903110-01-7
  • Roddy Lumsden
    Roddy Lumsden is Dead ISBN 1-903110-08-4
  • Daithidh MacEochaidh
    Travels with Chinaski ISBN 1-903110-23-8
  • Ben Myers
    The Book of Fuck ISBN 1-903110-15-7
  • Tony O'Neill
    Digging the Vein ISBN 1-903110-18-1
  • Milner Place
    caminante ISBN 1-903110-12-2
  • Eva Salzman
    ONE TWO II ISBN 1-903110-09-2
  • Jules Smith
    ART, SURVIVAL AND SO FORTH: The Poetry of Charles Bukowski ISBN 1-903110-03-3
  • Adam Strickson
    An Indian Rug surprised by Snow ISBN 978-1-903110-25-6
  • Jon Smith
    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 Armitage, Geoff Hattersley, Labbi Siffre, Greta Stoddart, and the first ever published interview with Charles Bukowski (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
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References
  1. "about us |". wreckingballpress.com. Retrieved 2017-03-24.
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