Most Popular Books by Ken Edwards

Poetry. In GOOD SCIENCE Edwards has written one of the truly powerful books of poetry to come out of England in the past ten years, linking many endeavors with the phenomenon of linguistic intrigue. In these days when American writers are battling over issues of how interruptive a poem should be, Edwards'' writing is what Iron magazine described as "somehow fluid and fractured at the same time." GOOD SCIENCE is an illuminating book. GOOD SCIENCE leaps over the shaggy dog of most contemporary poetry by transcending poetic license, elevating the writing beyond mere poetic concerns to a larger human scale.

When the tugboats'' work is done for the day, they have time to splash and play.

Contemporary and accessible literary fiction by avant-garde author, musician and publisher Ken Edwards. Jobless, young Dennis Chaikowsky is house-sitting for his parents in the back end of nowhere, near a nuclear power station on the coast. His attempts at musical composition are stymied by his complicated relationship with his Neo-Marxist poet friend, city-dweller Tarquin, his sexual obsession with Alison, a.k.a Wanda, who works in the power station by day and is a singer by night, and his fear and awe of her rock musician husband Severin. It''s an unsustainable comedy, but the world outside, natural and unnatural, described in Edwards'' unnerving prose, doesn''t care.

It is not a book of poems. It is not a long poem. It is not a novel. Nor a volume of short stories. It is not a work of philosophy. It is not an object - like a stone. Yet it drops into the well of nothingness and is never heard of again. a book with no name fuses the optimism of Beckett with the hyperrealism of Stein.

"Ah-Choo!" Emily Elizabeth has a bad cold. How will Clifford and his friends cheer her up?

DOWN WITH BEAUTY explores, in a series of linked dialogues, dramatic monologues and short fictions, the themes of exile, the aftermath of war, paranoia, improvised music and nothingness. The collection is completed with the full text of NOSTALGIA FOR UNKNOWN CITIES, previously published separately. KEN EDWARDS is a writer, editor and publisher. He ran Reality Studios magazine from 1978-88 and later co-founded Reality Street. He lives in Hastings, on the south coast of England, where he currently plays bass guitar with The Moors.