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Claire Hamilton will be interviewing Eleanor Rees today, 22nd July, on Arts & Culture on BBC Radio Merseyside.

You can listen again here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/networks/merseyside/aod.shtml?merseyside/claire_hamilton

New MySpace profile just created, come an add The Salt Shortlist to your friends:

http://www.myspace.com/saltforwardprizes

Plus you get the bonus of hearing a great Chavez track.

As news broke of the Forward shortlist and Salt’s phones were ringing non-stop, the nationwide hunt was on for Luke Kennard who, as it turned out, was returning from the Latitude Festival, after touring a new work with Pegabovine, the comic theatre company who have wowed the Edinburgh Fringe and other venues across the [...]

Rob Mackenzie picks up on the Forward Prize nominations in Surroundings.

Luke Kennard reads “Gerald Variations” live at the Etcetera Theatre in Camden.

Scroll down to the podcast and enjoy.

saltpublishing.com/books/smp/9781844713073.htm

Forward Poetry Prize nominee Eleanor Rees & fiction editor Jen Hamilton-Emery at yesterday’s star-studded awards ceremony for the Edge Hill Prize for the Short Story in Manchester last night.

Leading avant-garde poet, academic and critic, Robert Sheppard with Eleanor at the [...]

The wonderful Cherryl Floyd-Miller, soon to be published by us, offers a US take on all things Salt in the Forward Poetry prizes. Read more here.

Waterstone’s online have a feature on the Forward Poetry Prizes shortlist, thanks to Adam, the man behind the poetry pages. Read and buy online:

http://www.waterstones.com/

Put this date in your diary for a Salt triple bill, featuring the Forward shortlisted poets Melanie Challenger and Eleanor Rees alongside Chris McCabe.

THURSDAY 20 SEPTEMBER WHITECHAPEL GALLERY

Salt poets Eleanor Rees (Andraste’s Hair) and Melanie Challenger (Galatea) have both been nominated for this year’s Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Which [...]