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The Guardian From Milton to the Next Generation

Intriguing debuts, meanwhile, include Simon Barraclough’s Los Alamos Mon Amour (Salt) which wheels through forms, moods and locations around a sensual core of love poems.

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The wonderful Clive James ( http://clivejames.com/ ) has a large-scale online project, which he and his collaborators have been working on since his since retirement from mainstream television a few years ago. More than a personal archive the site hosts a wide range of essays, cultural comment and many guest writers. [...]

With best wishes for the Season and a FAB 2008 to y’all!

Callum, Disco Dan (on Callum’s knee), Jen, Chris, Cameron, Kirsty, Nibbles and Muriel.

xoxoxo

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Seasonal Greetings

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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2007

Books I Like 2007 Poetry books I’ve really enjoyed this year include:

Eleanor Rees: Andraste’s Hair John Ash: The Parthian Stations John Ashbery: A Worldly Country Luke Kennard: The Harbour Beyond The Movie Zoe Brigley: The Secret Charles North: Cadenza Tony Lopez: Covers David Kennedy: The Devil’s Bookshop [...]

The New York Sun

In her third collection of poems, the American poet Tamar Yoseloff, long a resident of London, uses the notion of the fetch to give structure and resonance to a sequence of strong but delicate lyrics. “Fetch” (Salt, 62pages, $14.95) strikes me as one of the best collections to [...]

Open Book

Christmas Fiction Picks Mariella Frostrup is joined by the novelists Kate Mosse and Toby Litt to recommend some of the year’s best fiction, from crime to verse novels, suitable as Christmas presents or just holiday reading.

Frostrup : ?Well we’ve talked about some reasonably established authors. Toby, anything [...]

Rupert Loydell singles out 10 Salt books in his editor’s picks of 2007 at Stride Magazine

2007: THE EDITOR?S PICKS

POETRY

Next Life, Rae Armantrout Another Place, Mike Barlow No Sounds of My Own Making, John Bloomberg-Risman The Marvelous Bones of Time, Brenda Coultas Torques, Rachel Blau DuPlessis No Public Language, Ken [...]

The Scotsman

This elegant evocation of the nature of young girls comes from Scales Dog by Alexander Hutchison.

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A special Salt reading

Organised by Anne-Marie Fyfe

Monday February 4th, 2008 8.00 ? 10.00 p.m.

The Troubadour

The Troubadour 265 Old Brompton Road London SW5

The Troubadour

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Featuring

PETER?ABBS | SASCHA?AKHTAR | VINCENT?DE?SOUZA | ISOBEL?DIXON | TIM?DOOLEY | [...]