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Wrecking Ball Press

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Wrecking Ball Press is an independent poetry and prose publishing company, based in Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It was established and is edited by Shane Rhodes.[1]

Wrecking Ball Press produces a regular anthology, The Reater, as well as live events. Its other publications include Dan Fante's Corksucker, Richard Adams' Daniel, Roddy Lumsden's Roddy Lumsden is Dead, Ben Myers' The Book Of Fuck and Tony O'Neill's Digging the Vein.

Some writers and poets appearing on Wrecking Ball Press

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  • 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

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Awards and nominations

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Nominated for The Forward Prize for Best First Collection

References

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  1. ^ "about us". wreckingballpress.com. Retrieved 24 March 2017.
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