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Catalogue 2020 Wrecking Ball Press CATALOGUE 2020 WRECKING BALL PRESS Since 1997 Wrecking Ball Press has published high-quality, cutting-edge literature, building a national and international reputation. This reputation is based on a commitment to connecting the most innovative and accessible novels and poetry with a readership not traditionally associated with literature. Wrecking Ball Press has a strong record of discovering exciting first time writers, many of whom have gone on to have further commercial and critical success with larger publishers. For more information visit www.wreckingballpress.com Take Me Up The Lighthouse Use Words First Dean Wilson Various £10 £10 Pages: 76 Pages: 184 Cover: Paperback Cover: Paperback Language: English Language: English Publisher: Wrecking Ball Press Publisher: Wrecking Ball Press ISBN: 978-1-9031107-1-3 ISBN: 978-1-9160523-1-4 Dimensions: 21 x 15 x 0.6cm Dimensions: 21 x 15 x 1.5cm Released: 29.01.2020 Released: 27.09.2019 Dean Wilson: Hull’s fourth best and Withernsea’s second best Humanity explored through poetry. Twelve poets put their words poet, daily collector of pebbles and an enigma wrapped in rhyme. first. BBC Radio 1Xtra and Asian Network teamed up with BBC Since his relocation to a cliff-edge residence, Dean’s creative Contains Strong Language for Words First, a scheme aimed at juices have been flowing faster than the Humber into the North finding the best emerging spoken word talent in the UK. Sea and, inspired by his Holderness surroundings, he’s been writing furiously. Take Me Up The Lighthouse is the result. Open USE WORDS FIRST is a collection of 12 poets from Words First up and enter the wonderful world of Mr Wilson. brought together in a brilliant anthology edited by Jude Yawson, co-writer of Stormzy’s Rise Up: The Story So Far and contributor to the SAFE anthology edited by Derek Owusu. Exploring themes of identity, connectivity and mobilisation, USE WORDS FIRST brings together eclectic styles and people all exploring humanity in their own unique ways. This is a snapshot of some of the struggles, inspirations and muses of young Britain today expressed through poetry that spans from the personal to the political and is always full of beauty and power. I am both stranger Coketown and of this place Barney Farmer £5 £12 Pages: 68 Pages: 200 Cover: Paperback Cover: Paperback Language: English Language: English Publisher: Wrecking Ball Press Publisher: Wrecking Ball Press ISBN: 978-1-903110-72-0 ISBN: 978-1-903110-68-3 Dimensions: 21 x 15 x 0.5cm Dimensions: A5 Released: 27.09.2019 Released: 01.11.2019 Poems from Indonesia and the UK by Rufus Mufasa, Irma Pasts remembered, Agryanti, Billy Letford, Mario F. Lawi, Roseanne Watt, Jamil pasts forgot, Massa. pasts denied, passed are not. The Indonesia – UK Poetry Indigenous Language Exchange is a project conceived by the British Council, Makassar International When childhood friends meet again to reminisce and compare Writers’ Festival, Contains Strong Language and Wrecking Ball scars a fresh wound waits just around the corner. One rainy night Press to enable cultural and linguistic exchange between poets at the wrong end of town, and a pub crawl along Memory Lane from East Indonesia and the UK. takes a hard right down a dark dead end in Barney Farmer’s second novel, Coketown. This project also celebrates UNESCO’s Year of Indigenous Language. This project is part of the broader programme of Illustrated by Lee Healey. events for the Indonesia Market Focus at London Book Fair and is supported by the Indonesia Ministry of Education and Culture, the Indonesia Agency for Creative Economy (Bekraf) and the Indonesia National Book Committee. Bathwater WITH Vicky Foster Dean Wilson £10 £5 Pages: 54 Pages: 20 Cover: Paperback Cover: Paperback Language: English Language: English Publisher: Wrecking Ball Press Publisher: Wrecking Ball Press ISBN: 978-1-903110-65-2 ISBN: Dimensions: 21 x 14.5 x 0.7cm Dimensions: 26 x 14 x 0.5cm Released: 26.03.2019 Released: 11.12.2018 Vicky Foster is one very capable writer and Bathwater is a A magazine of eleven poems inspired and written in Withernsea very personal story. Using her own real-life experience of what with stunning photographs by Graham Scott of Human Design. happens when violence spills over into family life, Bathwater is a Created after Dean bumped into Graham and Shane Rhodes gripping, of Wrecking Ball Press. Dean was raving about Withernsea and ever-twisting, often moving, somewhat shocking and often ago- told them about the poems he’d written there and said he had a nising piece of work. Rather than a cathartic over-share, however, stapler and knew how to use it and was planning to self-publish Foster goes way beyond writing what she knows in order to craft a pamphlet. Graham and Shane had other ideas, and WITH was something that is simultaneously hard-hitting and poetic. She has born. written a work of literary beauty, despite the harsh and uncomfort- able subject matter, combining prose, poetry and dialogue. And here it is. The beauty and mystery of Withernsea brought to you in a lucky bag with seven gifts, including a sixpence and a Vicky Foster was the recipient of The Imison Award 2020 at the bingo card dobbed personally by Dean. BBC Audio Drama Awards 2020 for Bathwater. She Wrote Her Own Eulogy Nosebleeds Shirley May Isaiah Hull £10 £10 Pages: 108 Pages: 124 Cover: Paperback Cover: Paperback Language: English Language: English Publisher: Wrecking Ball Press Publisher: Wrecking Ball Press ISBN: 978-1-9031106-3-8 ISBN: 978-1-9031106-4-5 Dimensions: 26 x 14 x 1.3cm Dimensions: 26 x 14 x 1.3cm Released: 26.09.2018 Released: 28.09.2018 Shirley May’s She Wrote Her Own Eulogy takes the reader on a Isaiah Hull’s Nosebleeds is visceral and raw, a voice far older than journey, the landscape of Kent and Manchester brought to vibran- the poet’s young years, exploring family, life, and the real world. cy via Jamaica. It is a twisting road, the displaced lives making Hull’s writing is soul-searching and down to earth, Nosebleeds new communities on strange soil, the stories kept and told and an exploration of expression, traversing emotion and form. It is shared. It is wisdom, it is memory, and it is future and hope. hard-hitting poetry, written to be spoken aloud but making the transfer to the page with remarkable ease and clarity. Spit & Hiss Earwigging Mike Watts Dave McGowan £10 £12 Pages: 116 Pages: 110 Cover: Paperback Cover: Hardback Language: English Language: English Publisher: Wrecking Ball Press Publisher: Wrecking Ball Press ISBN: 978-1-903110-57-7 ISBN: 978-1-903110-39-3 Dimensions: 21 x 14.5 x 1.7cm Dimensions: 22 x 14 x 2.3cm Released: 06.08.2018 Released: 21.11.2018 Mike Watts’ down-to-earth poetry is compelling and varied, Earwigging is a journey, never lingering for too long in any one covering all manner of sins in language both beautiful and place. It is the written equivalent of walking through a train station harrowing. Spit & Hiss is visceral, bold, tempered with an or waiting for a friend in a pub, conversations drifting in and out of intricacy of linguistic divide and form that may be read and re-read earshot, only ever in part and neither beginning nor resolved. It is without encroaching mundanity, and leaves the reader thinking, “I the overheard world. It is poignant, it is as unreal as only reality know that feeling.” can be. It is hilarious. “The poems of Mike Watts come right off the streets and meet the “This is the real stuff. Stories from and about the street, from the reader square on. In their brevity they have much to say about the soft belly of hard places. Stories that make you wince, laugh and human condition.” – Neeli Cherkovski wonder. A great collection from a writer of wit and talent.” – Kit de Waal J SS Bach Exire Martin Goodman Helen Mort £14 £12 Pages: 300 Pages: 110 Cover: Hardback Cover: Hardback Language: English Language: English Publisher: Wrecking Ball Press Publisher: Wrecking Ball Press ISBN: 978-1-903110-62-1 ISBN: 978-1-903110-59-1 Dimensions: 22 x 14 x 2.7cm Dimensions: 22 x 14 x 1.7cm Released: 06.03.2019 Released: 10.09.2018 J SS Bach is the story of three generations of women from Exire is not a novel. It is not a collection of short stories. It is, either side of Germany’s 20th Century horror story – one side, instead, both of these things: stories that may stand alone whilst a Jewish family from Vienna, the other linked to a ranking Nazi being inextricably tied together. It is Helen Mort’s first foray into official at Dachau concentration camp – who suffer the the world of fiction beyond poetry. consequences of what men do. Exire: Dystopian Britain, the year unspecified. A new website, Fast forward to 1990s California, and two survivors from the Exire, offers those who feel disconnected from their lives one families meet. Rosa is a young Australian musicologist; Otto is a last act of choice, packaged as a bespoke service. In this world-famous composer and cellist. Music and history link them. unsettling collection, voices fade in and out, people A novel of music, the Holocaust, love, and a dog. connected by Exire’s troubling appeal. At the heart of it all is Lorna, a young musician who has made a painful decision. We hear her story in reverse. Doom 94 Drunken Baker Jānis Joņevs Barney Farmer £14 £14 Pages: 256 Pages: 160 Cover: Hardback Cover: Hardback Language: English Language: English Publisher: Wrecking Ball Press Publisher: Wrecking Ball Press ISBN: 978-1-903110-53-9 ISBN: 978-1-9031105-4-6 Dimensions: 22 x 14 x 2.3cm Dimensions: 22 x 14 x 1.5cm Released: 06.08.2018 Released: 26.04.18 Doom 94 is Joņevs’ debut novel, published first as Jelgava 94 in Characters born into the celebrated Viz comic strip, ‘Drunken Latvia in 2013.
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