Luke Kennard reviewed in Culture Wars

Stride on over to Culture Wars for a take on the growing reputation of the Forward Prizes:

Now in their seventeenth year, the Forward Poetry Prizes are open to poets old and new alike. Developed in order to bring contemporary poetry to a wider audience, this year’s shortlist inclusion of young poets alongside their [...]

Books, and more of them.

Lots of exciting things today. This morning we got copies of Elizabeth Baines’ Balancing on the Edge of the World from the printer and mighty fine it is too – I’m so pleased with it. It’s being launched in Manchester later this month, but Elizabeth will be reading from it next week at a [...]

Jane Holland at the Essex Poetry Festival

Essex Poetry Festival

Jane Holland, Daljit Nagra, Catherine Smith, A. F. Harrold, Tim Cunningham & Audience Participation Workshop with Michael Laskey. Plus Open Mic & readings from this years competition winners. Date: Saturday 20th October Venue: The Cramphorn Theatre, Fairfield Road, Chelmsford, Essex CM1 1JG Tickets ?12 (?10 concs.) Box office 01245 [...]

Blogs pick up on Isobel Dixon

Charles Lambert

Charles Lambert enjoys two days in the Smoke, and takes in Isobel’s launch at Foyles in Charing Cross Road. Read more…

Jane Holland

Jane Holland picks up on “O Dreamland: Film Poems at BFI Southbank”:

Isobel Dixon’s poem O Dreamland sits alongside Lyndsay Anderson’s free cinema hymn to [...]

Katy Evans-Bush spends an evening at the Isobel Dixon launch

Katy Evans-Bush gives a first hand account of Isobel Dixon’s launch.

Isobel Dixon

Well, I’m hungover for a good reason: we have launched Isobel Dixon’s fine new poetry collection, A Fold in the Map (Salt), and we have floated it out to voyage on a river of free South African wine. The people [...]

The Happy Snapping Challenge continues …

We are honoured to have the high and mighty of the literary world reading our Salt Confidential blog. One of them has even taken part in our Happy Snapping Challenge. Hang onto your hats for what follows — reading Giles Goodland’s Capital in the afternoon sunshine of Trieste, none other than James Joyce!

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Ice Cream or I Scream?

We always try to get our children to do things for themselves – it’s important, we feel, to encourage self-sufficiency and independence from an early age (that’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it!). We also encourage Callum and Kirsty to help their toddler brother out when he needs it and to play with [...]

Jerome Rothenberg reading this Wednesday at Openned (3rd October):

Jerome Rothenberg reading this Wednesday at Openned (3rd October):

Jerome Rothenberg

Jerome Rothenberg Martin Dean Chris Gutkind (TBC) Caroline Bergvall

Openned mic Carol Watts Jerome Rothenberg

Reading on: Wednesday 3rd October at 7.15pm in the basement of The Foundry on Great Eastern Street, London EC1 (nearest tube: Old Street) More [...]