Wrecking Ball Press


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.
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''

Daniel
The Bat Detector
The Scene of my Former Triumph
Stranger in the House
Contact Print
The Hail Mary Pass
Corksucker
A Gin Pissing, Raw Meat, Dual Carburettor V-8 Son-of-a-Bitch from Los Angeles
Harmonica
Nappy Rash with foreword by UK comedian and writer Sean Lock.
the case of the missing blue volkswagen
Roddy Lumsden is Dead
Travels with Chinaski
The Book of Fuck
Digging the Vein
caminante
ONE TWO II
ART, SURVIVAL AND SO FORTH: The Poetry of Charles Bukowski
An Indian Rug surprised by Snow
''Toytopia''

Anthologies

The Reater
  • Reater 1
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
Contributors include Seamus Curran, Joan Jobe Smith, Fred Voss, with artwork by Kevin Rudeforth.
  • Reater 3
Contributors include Simon Armitage, Geoff Hattersley, Labbi Siffre, Greta Stoddart, and the first ever published interview with Charles Bukowski, with artwork by David Hernandez.
  • Reater 4
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
''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
''The Scene of my Former Triumph''