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Harmonica
Wrecking Ball Press, 2003
24 Cavendish Square, Hull, East Yorkshire HU3 1SS
ISBN 1-903110-11-4
£7.99

Geoff Hattersley
Geoff Hattersley was born in South Yorkshire in 1956. He has performed his poetry in numerous venues over the past twenty-two years, including the Royal Festival Hall; Morden Tower, Newcastle; Aldeburgh Poetry Festival; John Hewitt International Summer School, Northern Ireland; University of Bangor; and Hull Literature Festival. He has run writers’ workshops for various organisations including the Workers’ Educational Association and the Poetry Business, Huddersfield. He edited The Wide Skirt from 1968 until 1998, publishing 31 issues of the magazine and 24 books and pamphlets. He is currently Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Liverpool John Moores University and is working on a volume of new and
selected poems.

Shane Rhodes, Editor of Wrecking Ball Press
The Wrecking Ball Press was established by Hull born writer Shane Rhodes in 1997, primarily as an aid to promoting their twice yearly poetry magazine The Reater. The Reater is quietly building a reputation that extends far beyond Yorkshire. Shane has distribution set up on the west and east coasts of the US, and sales abroad are doing ‘very well’. Shane began The Reater with Owen Benwell when they became frustrated with the poorly produced magazines they were seeing. They felt that badly photocopied sheets of confusing and unreadable verses were hardly going to set people’s appetite for poetry alight. ‘So we decided to stop complaining and do something about it ourselves. It was important that The Reater should look and feel good. People normally throw magazines away, but we wanted it to be something you’d keep.’