Reaching the 10000 - celebration & book signing February 28, 2008

In 2001, amidst loud and insistent warnings about the dire prospects for poetry sales in the UK, we launched flipped eye publishing to publish contemporary poetry from new and emerging writers. With writers plucked from open mike events we set about conquering the literary world with guerrilla tactics that included one of the first publisher e-mailing lists, travelling to obscure chain store branches to get our books stocked, and regular live readings in London. In August 2007 we sold our 10,000th book, just weeks before we made the pages of the New York Metro - with an iconic photo of one of our poets, Ainsley Burrows - for staging a guerrilla reading in the middle of the Brooklyn Book Festival.

The 10,000 books landmark is even sweeter for us because we didn't achieve it by leaning on one book; every single poetry volume we have produced has sold in excess of 100 copies - indeed, with a list of only 19 titles at the time, many had sold a lot more. It was something to celebrate... but we didn't have the time. Between September and December 2007 we released 5 new titles - Niki Aguirre's 29 Ways to Drown (Fiction), L. K. Robinson's you say it's been good (Poetry), Niall O'Sullivan's Ventriloquism for Monkeys (Poetry), Denise Saul's White Narcissi (Poetry) and Malika Booker's Breadfruit (Poetry). Now we have decided to take the time to make some noise and celebrate. Join us at the new and uber-cool Lati Ri Bar in Rivington Place to chill to some music, eat some free finger food, drink, meet and mingle with flipped eye's authors. There will be 15 minute book signing sessions at 8.00pm and 9.30pm and the whole event is FREE of course.

Official Website: http://reachingthe10000.co.uk