US Release of John Wilkinson's Down to Earth

Wilkinson releases new book of poetry University of Notre Dame

Mollie Zubek Date: January 28, 2009

John Wilkinson, professor of literature and creative writing at the University of Notre Dame, has published a new book, ?Down to Earth,? released this fall by Salt Publishing, an international award-winning publisher of poetry, [...]

Ian Pindar withdraws from the Crashaw Prize

Mike Barlow’s Templar Winning Pamphlet is a PBS Pamphlet Choice

Salt author, Mike Barlow, one of the four winners of the 2008 Templar Poetry Pamphlet & Collection Competition, has been selected as the Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice, with his pamphlet ‘Amicable Numbers’.

More information is available on the Templar Poetry website at http://www.templarpoetry.co.uk

Best Scottish Poems 2008: Alexander Hutchison

Editors? Comment

Not enough poems make us laugh. ?Surprise, Surprise? did continuously. Haggis, of course, has a hallowed niche in McParnassus, Burns’ oft-incanted ode being the benchmark. It would be nice, however, next Burns Night if Alexander Hutchison’s tour de force could be heard across the land. But we do hope that [...]

Desert Blues 26th January 2009 in Hall One at King's Place, London

Desert Blues

Poet in the City is delighted to be working with Kings Place in King’s Cross, the new home of Guardian News and Media. This spectacular new building includes performance spaces, galleries, restaurants and a book shop. The charity will be holding a whole series of exciting events in Hall One [...]

10 Ways to Take a Bad Author Photo

1. Firstly, let us prepare our general attitude towards portraiture. Remember that how you appear to your readers is fundamentally unimportant and has no impact on sales or your profile. Serious writers don’t do portraits. Those great photos of Auden, Beckett, Carver, Donaghy, Eliot, Hughes, Isherwood, well, those great photos did nothing to [...]

Oliver Dennis reviews Event by Judith Bishop in Verse Magazine

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

NEW! Review of Judith Bishop

Event by Judith Bishop. Salt Publishing, $15.95.

Reviewed by Oliver Dennis

You cannot see the air–and yet it exists according to those who know. Graham Greene, A Burnt-out Case

Judith Bishop is an unusual poet for Australia to [...]

Scott Pack previews “Balancing on the Edge of the World” by Elizabeth Baines

Most of the stories in this impressive collection are firmly rooted in reality. Domestic situations. Families. Marriage. The relationships between friends and neighbours. I often think that these are risky subject areas as they are ones that every reader will be familiar with and therefore more likely to pick up on elements [...]

Nicholas Royles reviews Sue Hubbard in The Independent

Rothko’s Red, By Sue Hubbard The Silence Room, By Sean O’Brien Tales of art, love and drink as poets turn to prose

Reviewed by Nicholas Royle Friday, 9 January 2009

Two debut collections of short stories by poets: which one profits from diversifying and which is still feeling its way in [...]

Poetry Daily Featured Poet: Jill McDonough

Jill McDonough is the featured poet on Poetry Daily .

Read more on her and her astonishing debut collection, Habeas Corpus here: Poetry Daily?s Featured Poet: Jill McDonough tags: jill?mcdonough , poetry?daily , featured?poet [...]