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I am in the middle of what is proving to be a very positive day. I am feeling extremely buoyed up and excited about everything that’s going on. February and March’s books are coming along nicely and the ones we’ve just pubilshed are heading out into the world looking fantastic.

And on top of [...]

If you’re out and about in the UK, pop into your local branch of Waterstone’s or Borders, stroll over to the poetry section and LOOK AT SALT BOOKS!!

We are delighted and thrilled to bits that our poetry books are being taken into core stock. Borders are also stocking our short story books.

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First impressions – blog

It?s like entering an alternative universe, that we could if we were Star Trek fans (which we are, even if we?re not great fans of Klingon Opera) call the Gate Universe, entered through a wormhole just the other side of the Great Spiral Nebula. Far away from everywhere else, [...]

We Speak in Code of What We Love

Robert Potts reviews On Purpose by Nick Laird, Black Moon by Matthew Sweeney and The Harbour Beyond the Movie by Luke Kennard

There is a considerable intelligence and stylishness in his wry domestication of the beautiful swerves and non-sequiturs of Ashbery’s poems, plus a high [...]

Bill Griffiths: A Commemoration Saturday 17th November. 2-5 pm

Council Room, Birkbeck College, Malet Street, London WC1

Further details to be announced. tags: Bill?Griffiths: , Commemoration

Warwick Words has named Jane Holland as Poet Laureate for 2007/2008. Jane, from Rugby in Warwickshire and was publicly announced at the Festival Launch on 3 October.

Jane Holland

The position of Warwick Poet Laureate is an honorary one for a period of twelve months during which time they will get involved [...]

I’m not long back in from a trip north to Manchester – a place I have great affection for having spent my early twenties living and working there. The Manchester skyline is now dotted with cranes as new flash high-rise buildings spring up all over the place and some of the grittier parts of [...]

How many publishers does it take to put together bunk beds? Well, it takes two, but considerably more time than the 60 minutes the instruction leaflet reckons on. We bought some bunk beds for Kirsty’s room – she’s always having friends staying and there isn’t enough floor space for the camp bed. Four boxes [...]

Carys Davies’s book of short stories, Some New Ambush has been reviewed in the Independent by Boyd Tonkin who compares her writing to Dylan Thomas and Margaret Atwood. He describes the 15 stories in the book as being a ‘darkly funny and unsettling collection’.

Read the full review here .

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I am feeling very buoyed up at the moment – it’s a very exciting time in the Salt office. All my (yes, MY- I take vicarious ownership of them, verging on phantom authorship) 2007 short story books are now either published or being printed, soon to hit the world. Next week I’m up in [...]