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Jenson Reads His Favourite Book

Jenson reads Tamar Yoseloff’s Fetch. “It’s a barking good read,” he says. “Take my word for it.”

Thanks to Mark and Ute Towriss.

Read more about the Happy Snapping Challenge.tags: fetch, dog, [...]

Toby Gebbie and Will Shipley

“I am Toby Gebbie, son of Salt author Vanessa Gebbie (on left) … and friend Will Shipley. We are both 15. With Broken Doll by Neil Campbell.”

Read more about the Happy Snapping Challengetags: Toby, Gebbie, Will, [...]

It’s a Bank Holiday Monday here in the UK and it’s not letting us down — rain, and lots of it, some of it coming through our roof as an extra bonus.

Photography challenge

The Salt publicity team spot Jen in her chenille nightie and woollen bed socks

But here’s something to brighten [...]

We’ve just had a quick surge of bookstore orders for Jerry Harp’s wonderful new book, Urban Flowers, Concrete Plains, and I was reading it this afternoon, waiting for Callum to get back from cub camp.

Jerry Harp

Jerry Harp in New York ? John Wilkinson

Jerry’s Creature poems are full of poignant, funny, philosophical [...]

In a recent Salt survey of our visitors (currently over 50,000 a month) Shearsman was voted as the Best Indepdendent British Poetry Press of 2006. I asked Tony Frazer, the editor, where things were going for the business.

Tony Frazer, editor of Shearsman

Tony Frazer, editor of Shearsman

Shearsman has always inhabited its own [...]

There is growing concern about the reality of Arts Council funding cuts for British literature, as the government diverts funding to the London Olympics.

First Aid for Literature Cuts promised for literature?

Bloodaxe?s Simon Thirsk is quoted by Joel Rickett in today?s Guardian: ?If we do have a loss of funding, our less profitable [...]

Manuscript

Some years back I worked on developing a mark-up language for academic publishing. Alex Brown of GriffinBrown supported me and a team of staff in developing a sophisticated range of (very pure) XML DTDs which coordinated things like the mark up of texts, of production specifications, of file delivery and so on. It [...]