Just One Book
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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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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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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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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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Wena Poon and Roberto the matador* discuss how they could go about raising money for Wena’s publisher and mine, Salt. Roberto’s old, torn and bloodied matador outfits are out of the running, but he has better ideas. Find out what they are! *One of the eponymous stars of Wena’s new novel, Alex y Robert, generally available
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Just spotted the note below on Chris Hamilton-Emery’s Facebook profile and the Salt blog. Please do what you can to help Salt’s brave, ambitious, essential independent literary publishing to survive this rocky, rocky period. It’s not just about me, or even Chris, Jen and their family, or even the growing number of authors Salt supports,
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I’m used to literary raffles: the Shore Poets has been kept afloat for years by raffling the delicious lemon cake that Mark Ogle’s widow bakes and Poetry at the GRV now even sports a raffle. But seldom do you get a raffle with as knock-me-down enticing a prize as the Big Salt Prize, in which
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As part of Salt’s continuing Just One Book campaign, you can currently avail yourself of some eye-popping, knock-me-down-with-a-feather discounts on 12 titles while stocks last. Details below: No. 1 Full Colour HB anthology “Poets in View” on offer at 70% off — Buy it now for £3.90! http://bit.ly/JsInF No. 2 “Sister Morphine” Crime Fiction HB
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