Poetry. This volume brings together for the first time a complete collection of the poetry of Bill Griffiths (1948-2007) 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...

Ken Edwards edited Reality Studios magazine, 1977–88, and founded Reality Street Editions with Wendy Mulford in 1993. He ran the press until it ceased publishing new books in 2016. He currently runs Grand Iota with Brian Marley, dedicated to new prose writing. As well as his poetry, collected here, he has published three novels and other works of imaginative prose, including his memoir of the 1970s, Wild Metrics. He lives in St Leonards on Sea, England, where from time to time he plays bass guitar with the band Afrit Nebula. "Whether we engage with its shifting terms, try to keep time to...