Salt is to develop a new classics list starting with 10 titles for 2009. The list revivifies the planned series, WIRE, which Salt closed a few years ago. “We’ve had a change of heart about a classics list, in some respects our earlier thinking was simp …

Judith Bishop’s Event has been shortlisted in the Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards: the Judith Wright Calanthe Award for poetry. – Event Judith Bishop (Salt Publishing/Inbooks) – Bark Anthony Lawrence (University of Queensland Press) – Typewriter M …

The CJ Dennis Prize for Poetry: Shortlist 2008 The judges were impressed by the strength of entries for the 2008 award, with fine collections from both established and new poets. We were also pleased to find several publishing houses active in a field …

Chris Kerr reviews Los Alamos Mon Amour in CultureWars:For me, the city of Florence means the Renaissance. For Simon Barraclough, it means Hannibal. In his debut collection, Los Alamos Mon Amour, culture as we know it has been annihilated by an atom bo …

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