Your Sort

Ed Reiss

978-1-906613-27-3

£9.95

Aldeburgh Best First Collection (shortlist)

Forward Prize for Best Single Poem (highly commended) — "Ka’aba' (republished in the Forward Book of Poetry anthology)

'Reiss is not easy to classify — always a good sign' — Helena Nelson

'Like all the best poems, Ed Reiss's poems are things-in-themselves independent of their maker, new happenings in the world' — Chris Preddle

'He can be flippant and funny — "Take my boss, Slobber McJab / auditing my attitude, / telling me to turn that frown upside down" — but also deadly serious — "It's blow-back time, a multi-polar world / of fault-line conflicts. Someone told me so, / a friend who once flipped burgers. / Now he slices and dices credit risk" — often within a few lines of the same poem" — Keith Richmond, The Tribune

'Ed Reiss’s first book-length collection, Your Sort, is a wonderful addition to a body of English humorous writing that started with Edward Lear, and Lewis Carroll and ends up in the Mighty Boosh having come via the Goon Show, but also the warm ‘Englishness’ of Men from the Ministry, and Round the Horne.' — Ian Pople, Manchester Review

Ed Reiss lives in Bradford.