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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.
About the author
Ken Edwards edited Reality Studios magazine, 1977-88, and founded Reality Street Editions with Wendy Mulford in 1993. He ran the press until it ceased publishing new books in 2016. He currently runs Grand Iota with Brian Marley, dedicated to new prose writing. As well as his poetry, collected here, he has published three novels and other works of imaginative prose, including his memoir of the 1970s, Wild Metrics. He lives in St Leonards on Sea, England, where from time to time he plays bass guitar with the band Afrit Nebula.
