News
9.3.10 – Copies of Dave’s new publication The Unicorn Washes Its Hair, an A6 pamphlet of poems for children, are now available.
18.12.09 – This website was down between Friday 11/12 and Thurs 17/12, and as my email is attached to it, all emails for that period have been lost. If you did try to contact me please resend your email as I will not have received it. Thank you.
3.6.09 – Rare Shellac Dave’s tribute to the late poet Adrian Mitchell can be heard on the Radio Wildfire MySpace page
18.3.09 – Contact page now working normally. The contact page on this website is now working again, apologies for any inconvenience caused.
27.2.09 – Apologies to those who have tried to contact me through the contact page on this website and have received no reply. I have discovered that the contact box has not been working since some time around 21st February. *An alternative method of contact is now included on the Contact page for use until this problem is rectified*.
24.12.08 – The death of the poet Adrian Mitchell will be the spur to many poetry tributes and the posting of reminiscences. There will be a contribution to that body of work on this website shortly. The current edition of The Loop at Radio Wildfire is also dedicated to Adrian’s memory. Visit The Loop here
14.11.08 – For those of you who haven’t already heard them (or would like to hear them again) there are two tracks by Dave which can be heard on the Radio Wildfire myspace page These are The End of the Pier Show which celebrates the burning down of the pier at Weston-super-Mare earlier this year, and Work in Progress a piece about jobs recorded as part Radio Wildfire’s live transmission for National Poetry Day.
8.10.08 – After a break of more than 20 years, Dave is once again playing with a re-formed Jean Vincent & The NiteCapz. An anarchic post-punk musichall of thrash-country and rockin’ acoustic schlockabilly boogie, the band’s recorded output was described by Kerrang! as “The ‘Oklahoma’ cast after a night out in a mescal factory … Brilliant, absolutely brilliant.” See Calendar for details.
29.7.08 – The final issue of Raw Edge Magazine has been now been published and distributed. To keep abreast of developments and new projects please visit www.rawedgemagazine.co.uk
29.5.08 – The Calendar has now been updated with details of some forthcoming live appearances.
14.4.08 – Dave’s satirical poem inspired by the 2007 Heathrow Climate Camp, On Smuggling Smart Clothes (into Heathrow): a flight of fancy, can now be read by visiting the official climate camp website climatecamp.org.uk, and clicking on the word ‘articles’ in the left hand column or by going direct via this link
The latest published works by Dave Reeves are Firing Lines in True To Life: memoirs from Ruskin College, Oxford, published by Heaventree Press; and Bastard No More published in the February ’08 edition of NthPosition, the online magazine of literature, culture and politics. You have also recently been able to hear Herod’s Hoochie Coochie and the track Carnival written and performed by Dave with music from Tom Cook (it comes from the cd Ballads for Bomere Heath) playing in The Loop on Radio Wildfire
After more than 12 years and 25 issues, Raw Edge Magazine has been notified that it will receive no more funding from Arts Council England as a Regularly Funded Organisation. This means that there is currently no finance to produce any further issues. To keep abreast of developments please visit www.rawedgemagazine.co.uk
An interview with Dave about the Ballads for Bomere Heath was conducted by the French academic Eric Doumerc in January 2007. It can be read at Allinfoaboutpoetry.com
The Ballads for Bomere Heath are now live at www.bomereheathballads.co.uk
The cd/cd-rom can be purchased from The Moving Finger at the address below, or get in touch through the Contact page of this site.
Edited by Dave Reeves, the e-pamphlet Raw Eds: the download, a collection of work by writers who have been involved in the editing of Raw Edge Magazine over the last 10 years can now be downloaded from www.birminghamwords.co.uk/publications
The pamphlet Concrete Spaghetti with poems by Dave Reeves, Roz Goddard, David Hart, Julie Boden, Sibyl Ruth and Matt Nunn is now available free. This was originally a commission from BBC Radio3. Send an A5 s.a.e with first class postage to the address on this page. Mark envelope Concrete Spaghetti.
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For further details or to discuss bookings please contact
Dave Reeves, POBox 4867, Birmingham, B3 3HD, England
Or use the contact page on this site.
Photograph of Dave (centre) with poet Todd Swift (right)
and Nick Dawes at the Purple Patch
small press conference.