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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 U.S., and sales abroad are doing "very well".

Shane began the Reater with Owen Benwell when they became frustrated with the poorly produced poetry magazines they were seeing. They felt that badly photocopied sheets of confusing and unreadable verse 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 to it to be something you'd keep."

The poetry inside its well crafted and excellently illustrated covers is equally well crafted. The Reater spearheads lesser known writers such as Carol Cioffat, Peter Knaggs and Maurice Rutherford alongside poets and writers with growing international reputations such as Roddy Lumsden, Simon Armitage and Joan Jobe Smith.

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