Utterly Salt
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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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