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Bloomsbury

Author Tim Cribb and special guest Sir Ian McKellen launch Bloomsbury & British Theatre: The Marlowe Story. March 10th, 6.30 p.m.

Heffers Bookshop 20 Trinity Street Cambridge

This is a ticketed event, please telephone for details: 01223568568

The story this book reveals has never been told before. Everyone knows [...]

Simon Barraclough will be appearing on The Film Programme on BBC Radio 4 this Friday and the next. It goes out at 4.30 p.m. on Friday afternoon.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/filmprogramme/

This week, Friday Feb 29th, Simon will be reading and discussing his poem ?A Tall Story About a Pushover? [...]

Ride the Word

Ride the Word

Hosted by Ernie Burns and Vincent De Souza

Borders 203-207 Oxford Street London W1d 2LE 30th April 7.30 p.m. to 9.00 p.m.

Mike Barlow Simon Barraclough Vincent De Souza Isobel Dixon Anthony Joseph

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Following several bouts of illness in the Salt House, plus school half-term holidays, I’m pleased to announce that we are now back to normal full steam ahead mode. Lots of book news (see the Confidential blog for full details) and some wonderful but embargoed prize news (damn it! – keeping quiet kills me), which [...]

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Brixtongue

BRIXTONGUE 8 PM. February 29th 2008 ART, POETRY, MUSIC, COMEDY In THE HEART OF BRIXTON

AT Diverse gallery 62 Atlantic Road Brixton London SW9 Tel 07913072052 8 pm, Friday 29th February 2008. Entrance is 6/ 5 conc. email: brixart@brixtonartgallery.co.uk.

Brixtongue South London s premier event for art and performance. Brixtongue [...]

Many congratulations to Isobel Dixon and Ken Kamoche who have books reviewed in South Africa’s Sunday Independent today.

The review of Isobel Dixon’s book, A Fold in the Map concludes with the following:

“Isobel Dixon is fully in command of the poetic tools at her disposal. In her hands form and content [...]

$15,000 John Bray poetry award (90 entries)

Seriatim (Geoff Page, Salt) At the Flash and at the Baci (Ken Bolton, Wakefield Press) Esperance: New and Selected Poems (Caroline Caddy, Fremantle Press) Urban Myths: 210 Poems (News and Selected) (John Tranter, UQP) A Bud (Claire Gaskin, John Leonard Press) Not Finding [...]

The London Word Festival has selected three Salt poets in its Top ten literary stars of 2008 New for 2008.

The London Word Festival is bringing the most innovative literary talent to the capital later this month. Check out their guide to this year’s hottest writers, poets and performers, full details in The [...]

Salt has been shortlisted in the Cambridge Evening News Business Excellence Awards 2008 in the Small Business of the Year category.

We are so thrilled, particularly given the other companies who are in there: I won’t list them all and there’s no link to the article in the paper as [...]