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“Wandelvakanties Dicht bij Huis“, one of the poems from The Ambulance Box, has just appeared today as part of the short season of other poets Jane Holland is running at the moment on her Raw Light blog. I’ve updated the sidebar with links to it and several other poems, including one in the wonderful this
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Just spotted that Rob A Mackenzie’s The Opposite of Cabbage and my collection The Ambulance Box are both now on the front page of the Salt website. Rob is beneath Keats, and I’m under Vincent De Souza. Rob also has his first review, at the blog of Tony Williams, whose collection is due out from
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For sound advice on the publishing world and some exquisite prose, check out Chris Hamilton-Emery’s “Letters from Our Editor” stream on the Salt Office Life blog.
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It’s fairly pointless to say this, as it’s blindingly obvious, but I’ve added the cover image for The Ambulance Box to the sidebar. Apparently, the collection is also one of several Salt books to feature in a back-page ad in the latest issue of the LRB!* I haven’t seen it yet as Linlithgow shops don’t
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I was jealous that Rob Mackenzie had got his books yesterday, so I just had to get up early this morning and zip down to the postal depot to pick up my author copies of The Ambulance Box, which the postman had failed to leave in our designated “safe place” yesterday. I wasn’t quite banging
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If you’ve dropped by the Poetry at the Great Grog blog recently, you’ll have seen that Julia Rampen and I have swapped slots, which means I’ll now be reading on 14 June instead of in May. I’m thoroughly looking forward to reading with fellow Salt poet and literary blogger extraordinaire, Katy Evans-Bush, author of that
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A quick update on the progress of The Ambulance Box: the book went to press on Friday! I can tell you, that was an exciting moment. It was made even better by the fact that I shared it with Rob A Mackenzie, whose collection The Opposite of Cabbage was sent to press at the same
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Rob Mackenzie has blogged about using personas and characters in his poetry. One of the points he discusses is the degree to which a reader is likely to equate the I of a poem written in the first person with the writer. Anyone who writes in a persona — anyone who writes, I suspect —
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The jacket for The Ambulance Box has been revised, so I’ve replaced the photo in the post below with the new version. Also, the PDF sample is now available.
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Things are moving on apace with The Ambulance Box, folks. No sooner had I dispatched my second proofs, than third proofs and a first cover design appeared in my inbox. (Okay, I confess to a slight exaggeration there. There was a time lag of a few days.) The cover looks as fabulous as all those
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Katy Evans-Bush‘s virtual book tour has got off to a glowing winter start with a short but delightful interview at the North Meadow Media blog. I just had to write down the following and share it with you: Word play opens up the language itself, like a pile of roasted chestnuts, for our delectation. Isn’t
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That ever-stylish blogger and Salt poet Katy Evans-Bush embarks tomorrow on a virtual book tour to promote her collection Me and the Dead. The tour, entitled “A Conversation About Dreams” will include feature interviews, pictures, audio, poems, jokes and a few serious moments — everything you’d expect from an in-person book tour expect flesh-pressing signing
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For any Facebook user interested in contemporary literary publishing — especially writers who hope to be published — Chris Hamilton-Emery’s notes should be essential reading. They are a blog in the strictest sense, a log of daily ups and downs that gives a fascinating insight into the struggle of juggling family life and the heavy
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The Ambulance Box grows ever closer to becoming a reality. Chris at Salt and I have just settled on 1 March 2009 as the publication date. If that seems far away to you, as it does to some friends I talk to, it seems tantalisingly close to me! Speaking of Salt, Will Stone’s collection Glaciation
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This being national poetry day, it seems a good time to wave Salt‘s new poetry book club, The Poetry Bank, under your nose. If you like the look of the Salt lists, you’ll like this: From just £40 you can subscribe to Salt’s Poetry Bank for one year and receive the following benefits: Four luxury,
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