Books published by Reality Street

Written over 12 months, from 23 September 2006 to 14 September 2007, Carol Watts' sequence of poems explores the freight of a year with an ear to its future. Fragments and "cuts" of time and memory, light, sound, weather, the voices of children. John Clare wandering among rinds of a shoe-making village and city parakeets. Small series, detonating. The working through of an occasional tense, its cost, its serious music, its gift. This is Carol Watts' second poetry collection for Reality Street, the first having been "Wrack" (2007).

First collection proper from James Davies after the sequences The Manual Handling Process (Beard of Bees) and Acronyms (onedit). He is editor of if p then q, former editor of the cult poetry object Matchbox,sometime collaborator with Simon Taylor as Joy as Tiresome Vandalism and is one of the organisers of Manchester-based The Other Room poetry night and website.

This volume brings together for the first time the late Bill Griffiths'' poetry up until 1980. The text, edited by Alan Halsey in consultation with Ken Edwards of Reality Street, includes the full "Cycles" and "War w/ Windsor" sequences that so astonished readers when they first appeared, as well as much other poetry that was published by his own Pirate Press imprint, Writers Forum and other small presses during the 1970s; and also poems and performance texts that have only made fleeting appearances in ephemeral pamphlets and magazines, or have never been published before. Bill Griffiths was a poet, Anglo-Saxon scholar, book designer, small press publisher, biker, pianist, archivist and social historian. He died in 2007 at the age of 59.