About Two Rivers Press
Two Rivers Press, an informal co-operative, was founded in 1994 by artist Peter Hay and has published over 50 titles. Their interest lies in new writing from Reading and the Thames Valley, and in supporting it with bold illustration and design. Their three main strands are poetry, local history, and new editions of classic poems and short fiction, especially with some local connection: for example, Oscar Wilde’s The Ballad of Reading Gaol.
Other ‘classics’ include Cat Jeoffry by Christopher Smart, The Drunken Boat by Arthur Rimbaud, Kubla Khan by Coleridge, and Shakespeare’s Winter and Spring songs from Love’s Labour’s Lost.
Two Rivers’ list of local poets includes Jane Draycott, Susan Utting, Paul Bavister, Adrian Blamires, Joseph Butler, A.F. Harrold and Ian House.
Local author Adam Sowan has also been published through Two Rivers: A Much Maligned Town: opinions of Reading 1586-1977; Abattoirs Road to Zinzan Street: Reading’s streets and their names (2nd ed., 2004); The Holy Brook (2003), an account of Reading’s secret third river, with a map and walking guide. Sumer is icumen in (2006) is a beautifully illustrated edition of this famous song dating from about 1250 and written, probably, by the monks of Reading Abbey.
Featured Titles
 | The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol in France shortly after his release from Reading, the only new work that he published after that time. £6.00 |  | Eggshell: A Decorator's Notes by Froy, John "They are some of the most distinctive poems it's been my pleasure to read since Tony Harrison's sonnets opened that elite form to working-class life." — Malcolm Povey £6.00 |
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