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The Verb

BBC Radio 3 2 May 2008 Friday 2 May 2008 21:45-22:30

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/theverb/

Ian McMillan presents a cabaret of language, poetry and performance, in which poet Simon Barraclough reads from and talks about his new collection.

Writer Iain Sinclair celebrates the life and work of the poet John Riley, [...]

For a debut collection by a British talent

Salt is inviting members of the ? Poets on Fire ? forum to recommend British poets with a debut collection for publication by Salt in the Spring of 2009. There are no fees and no age limit.

To be successfully recommended, the author?s first [...]

Absolutely cracking single from The Scaremongers:

tags: simon?armitage , the?scaremongers

tags: vanessa?gebbie

Mike Barlow and Jane Routh

Thursday 15 May Central Library Committee Room, 2nd Floor  1-2pm Free

Mike Barlow won first prize in the Amnesty International Competition 2002 and first prize in the Ledbury Competition 2005. His first collection, Living on the Difference, was short-listed for the Jerwood Aldeburgh Prize. [...]

tags: sandy?hutchison

tags: simon?barraclough , book?launch

Salt has announced the expansion of its free online magazines with the launch of a new literary review, Horizon , set to appear in September. Since moving its eponymous Salt Magazine from print to the Web in 2007 the literary publisher has seen visits to its popular Web site more than [...]

Salt will be moving to new offices in May, and we are offering two internships from June to support our UK sales and editorial team: i.e. me and Jen in managing our British & Irish poetry and short story lists, from commissioning through to sales.

– The position is for work experience in [...]

Salt has a number of non-paid series editors developing lists for us, most notably in the US, where an academic team at Kenyon College in Ohio are annually selecting titles for our Native American and our Latin American translations series now known collectively as Earthworks.

In similar fashion, I’m now considering developing discrete [...]