Amy Jo Philip
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The Poetry School has a fine new website and a new programme for the new season. I’m joining the school’s roster of tutors. It’s quite an honour and somewhat daunting, as it includes a good number of the finest, most distinctive poets writing in the UK, among them several of my fellow Salt authors. I’m…
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Eleanor Rees was born in Birkenhead, Merseyside in 1978. Her pamphlet collection Feeding Fire received an Eric Gregory Award in 2002 and her first full length collection Andraste’s Hair (Salt, 2007) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Glen Dimplex New Writers Awards. Salt published her second collection, Eliza and…
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Rob A Mackenzie was born in Glasgow. He studied law and then abandoned the possibility of significant personal wealth by switching to theology. He spent a year in Seoul, eight years in Lanarkshire, five years in Turin, and now lives in Edinburgh where he organises the Poetry at the GRV reading series. His excellent first…
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It’s a busy one, week after next: not only will I be reading at the Salt gig on the Free Fringe, but I’ll be back at the Banshee Labyrinth on the Wednesday afternoon (2.50 pm to be precise) to read with Claire Askew, Sophie Cooke, Gavin Inglis, Jane McKie and Andrew Wilson as part of the…
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Mark Granier was born in London but moved to Dublin in 1960, where he has been living ever since. He has published two collections with Salmon Poetry, Airborne (2001) and The Sky Road (2007). Fade Street was published in June this year. Catch Mark and seven other Salt poets on Monday 23 August at 6.30…
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Ryan Van Winkle is reader in residence at the Scottish Poetry Library and runs the monthly literary cabaret The Golden Hour at the Forest Cafe. His Crashaw Prize-winning first collection Tomorrow, We Will Live Here will be published this autumn. Catch Ryan and seven other Salt poets on Monday 23 August at 6.30 pm in…
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So far, The Ambulance Box is available only in hard copy. However, I have been working on an audio book for the still rather bare Salt audio books site, of which more in due course. Also, Amazon.co.uk has now made it possible to request that the collection be made availble for its Kindle e-book reader by…
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I wasn’t even aware that the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry had established a prize for first collections until I logged on to Facebook and saw from a post by fellow Salt poet and blogger Tony Williams that I’d been shortlisted! What’s more, there are two other Salt books on the list — Anne Berkeley‘s…
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In the run-up to the Salt gig at Utter! on the Free Fringe, I’ll be posting a poem by, and a mini-interview with, the other readers. They’ll all be answering the same questions, which I’m hoping will be an interesting exercise in itself. First up is Julia Bird, whose collection Hannah and the Monk was…
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Those of you wondering what else MacAdam has been getting up to lately can now have a tantalising — well, I hope it’s tantalising, but that’s for you to determine — glimpse, as another new poem “MacAdam Takes to the Road” has been included in the 17 July selection of Bugged submissions!* I’m delighted, not…
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And here is Jen’s Audioboo recording of today’s flashmob in London.
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Right now — 3 pm on Saturday 17 July 2010 — a flashmob is taking place at the Southbank Centre in London to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Salt Publishing. The assembled throng is reciting the great Pablo Neruda‘s “Ode to Salt”, reproduced below. And across the salinated literary blogosphere (there’s a phrase I never…
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MacAdam Essays the Epistemics of a Dream It used to chase me through the dark each night, though the dark was a crowded beach dizzy with sun and I was never alone but running with my father and it was two men dressed in dark suits who were agents of HM secret services, though how…
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It’s turning into Video Thursday here at Tonguefire, but I simply couldn’t resist posting this one. It’s funny, draws you in and it’s uncomfortably true to life. I knew nothing about this guy until Mairi Sharratt posted the video on Facebook today. Altogether a brilliant, subtle, highly entertaining piece of book promotion (or, rather, author promotion): (Gulp.…
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