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 simply too complex and we’ll never compete on price [...]
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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 Music David Malouf (University of Queensland Press) – The Australian Popular Songbook [...] 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 sometimes considered neglected, although always fostered by the [...] 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 bomb, specifically one designed at the eponymous US laboratory. What remains [...] http://www.thebookseller.com/news/64232-page.html in the blogs EyewearChoriambPenned in the Margins Mark Brown, arts correspondent at The Guardian covers this year’s Forward Prizes: Iambic pentameters, hexameters and trochees have been drawn. Britain’s most valuable poetry prize today releases its shortlist, featuring a higher than usual number of new and emerging poets. Poems published by specialist presses are also well represented in the Forward poetry prize [...] The shortlists for the 17th annual Forward Prizes for Poetry, one of the UK?s most valuable poetry prizes, were announced on Friday 1 August 2008. With many of the household names absent from this year?s shortlist, an up-and-coming generation shares the limelight with three highly respected contemporaries. Women are in [...] Sian Hughes winner of the 2006 International Poetry Competition is joining Salt with her book The Missing, to be published in the Spring of 2009. Arvon International Poetry Competition The Arvon International Poetry Competition 2008 is open until August 15th. Submit poems online or through the post. With ?11,000 worth of prizes, [...] Simon Barraclough’s Los Alamos Mon Amour has been shortlisted for Best First Collection in the Forward Prizes for Poetry 2008 Full story in the BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7535456.stm Read more about Los Alamos Mon Amourhttp://www.saltpublishing.com/books/smp/9781844713158.htm |
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