# Wrecking Ball Press > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Wrecking_Ball_Press > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Wrecking_Ball_Press.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrecking_Ball_Press > Source revision: 1319504636 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Independent English publisher based in England This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages) This article needs more citations. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Wrecking Ball Press" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (April 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this message) The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guidelines for companies and organizations. Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted. Find sources: "Wrecking Ball Press" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (February 2018) (Learn how and when to remove this message) This article may rely excessively on sources too closely associated with the subject, potentially preventing the article from being verifiable and neutral. Please help improve it by replacing them with more appropriate citations to reliable, independent sources. (February 2018) (Learn how and when to remove this message) (Learn how and when to remove this message) **Wrecking Ball Press** is an independent poetry and prose publishing company, based in [Hull](/source/Kingston_upon_Hull), [East Riding of Yorkshire](/source/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](/source/Dan_Fante)'s *Corksucker*, [Richard Adams](/source/Richard_Adams_(author))' *Daniel*, [Roddy Lumsden](/source/Roddy_Lumsden)'s *Roddy Lumsden is Dead*, [Ben Myers](/source/Ben_Myers)' *The Book Of Fuck* and [Tony O'Neill](/source/Tony_O'Neill)'s *Digging the Vein*. ## Some writers and poets appearing on *Wrecking Ball Press* This section may contain excessive or irrelevant examples. Please help improve it by removing less pertinent examples and elaborating on existing ones. (February 2018) (Learn how and when to remove this message) - [Richard Adams (author)](/source/Richard_Adams_(author)) *Daniel* [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [1-903110-37-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-903110-37-8) (hb) [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [1-903110-36-X](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-903110-36-X) (special signed edition) - Elizabeth Barrett *The Bat Detector* [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [1-903110-27-0](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-903110-27-0) - [Matthew Caley](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Matthew_Caley&action=edit&redlink=1) *The Scene of my Former Triumph* [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [1-903110-29-7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-903110-29-7) - [Brendan Cleary](/source/Brendan_Cleary) *Stranger in the House* [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [1-903110-06-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-903110-06-8) - [Tim Cumming](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tim_Cumming&action=edit&redlink=1) *Contact Print* [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [1-903110-10-6](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-903110-10-6) - [Fiona Curran](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fiona_Curran&action=edit&redlink=1) *The Hail Mary Pass* [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [1-903110-41-6](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-903110-41-6) - [Dan Fante](/source/Dan_Fante) *Corksucker* [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [1-903110-26-2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-903110-26-2) *A Gin Pissing, Raw Meat, Dual Carburettor V-8 Son-of-a-Bitch from Los Angeles* [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [1-903110-07-6](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-903110-07-6) - [Geoff Hattersley](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Geoff_Hattersley&action=edit&redlink=1) *Harmonica* [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [1-903110-11-4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-903110-11-4) - [Mark Kotting](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mark_Kotting&action=edit&redlink=1) *Nappy Rash* [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [1-903110-16-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-903110-16-5) with foreword by UK comedian and writer [Sean Lock](/source/Sean_Lock). - [Gerald Locklin](/source/Gerald_Locklin) *the case of the missing blue volkswagen* [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [1-903110-01-7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-903110-01-7) - [Roddy Lumsden](/source/Roddy_Lumsden) *Roddy Lumsden is Dead* [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [1-903110-08-4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-903110-08-4) - [Daithidh MacEochaidh](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Daithidh_MacEochaidh&action=edit&redlink=1) *Travels with Chinaski* [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [1-903110-23-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-903110-23-8) - [Ben Myers](/source/Ben_Myers) *The Book of Fuck* [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [1-903110-15-7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-903110-15-7) - [Tony O'Neill](/source/Tony_O'Neill) *Digging the Vein* [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [1-903110-18-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-903110-18-1) - [Milner Place](/source/Milner_Place) *caminante* [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [1-903110-12-2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-903110-12-2) - [Eva Salzman](/source/Eva_Salzman) *ONE TWO II* [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [1-903110-09-2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-903110-09-2) - [Jules Smith](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jules_Smith&action=edit&redlink=1) *ART, SURVIVAL AND SO FORTH: The Poetry of [Charles Bukowski](/source/Charles_Bukowski)* [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [1-903110-03-3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-903110-03-3) - [Adam Strickson](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Adam_Strickson&action=edit&redlink=1) *An Indian Rug surprised by Snow* [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-903110-25-6](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-903110-25-6) - Jon Smith *Toytopia* [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [1-903110-24-6](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-903110-24-6) ## Anthologies - **The Reater** - Reater 1 [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [1-903110-13-0](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-903110-13-0) *New British writing with the best of Southern California: great names of [L.A./Long Beach literature](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=L.A./Long_Beach_literature&action=edit&redlink=1), with photographs by James Brown & Simon Rees.* - Reater 2 [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [1-903110-14-9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-903110-14-9) *Contributors include Seamus Curran, Joan Jobe Smith, Fred Voss, with artwork by [Kevin Rudeforth](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kevin_Rudeforth&action=edit&redlink=1).* - Reater 3 [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [1-903110-00-9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-903110-00-9) *Contributors include [Simon Armitage](/source/Simon_Armitage), [Geoff Hattersley](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Geoff_Hattersley&action=edit&redlink=1), [Labbi Siffre](/source/Labbi_Siffre), [Greta Stoddart](/source/Greta_Stoddart), and the first ever published interview with [Charles Bukowski](/source/Charles_Bukowski) (1963), with artwork by David Hernandez.* - Reater 4 [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [1-903110-02-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/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](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [1-903110-04-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-903110-04-1) *Contributors include Sean Burn, Robert Nazarene, B. Z. Niditch and Rosemary Palmeira, with paintings by [Dee Rimbaud](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dee_Rimbaud&action=edit&redlink=1).* ## Awards and nominations Nominated for The [Forward Prize](/source/Forward_Prize) for Best First Collection[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*] - [Matthew Caley](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Matthew_Caley&action=edit&redlink=1) *The Scene of my Former Triumph* [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [1-903110-18-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-903110-18-1) ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["about us"](http://wreckingballpress.com/about-us/). *wreckingballpress.com*. Retrieved 24 March 2017. ## External links - [Official website for Wrecking Ball Press](http://www.wreckingballpress.com/) - [The Reater](http://www.wreckingballpress.com/html/reater.php) - [Forward Prizes for Poetry - awards for contemporary poetry](https://www.theguardian.com/books/forward2006/0,,1819575,00.html) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Wrecking Ball Press](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrecking_Ball_Press) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrecking_Ball_Press?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.