Letters from our Editor

Albert

Dear Albie

Thanks for yours. Sounds bleaker than a night with Godly ?Happy? Hill. Does The Gob really imagine that more moolah can be mangled out of it all? I mean two and a half million quid a year can?t be bloody bad, I know I must account for ?1.5 million of that turnover, despite my [...]

Letters from our Editor

Albert D Sump

To: Albert D Sump
From: Donald Trask
Re: Poetry Audit 2006

After last month?s Publishing Development Meeting it has become apparent that margins and sales have slipped further from 2002?s performance. I?m concerned that the poetry list isn?t making any real contribution to our overall profits and I?d like to initiate a review with you [...]

Letters from our Editor

Albert D Sump

Dear ???? Sump,

My name is Clifford Guy Wislowski and with over 35 years? experience in corporate bookselling I?m writing to you now to improve your business forever. I have one simple message: I want to make you and your authors obscenely rich.

Let me introduce you to IndolentBooks.com? ? a new way to [...]

The Opposite of Cabbage meets The Ambulance Box at the Scottish Poetry Library

Andrew Philip and Rob A. Mackenzie?s launch

The assembled represented a bit of a who?s who in poetry: Colin Will, David Kinloch, James Robertson, Katy Bush-Evans, Kevin Cadwallender, Jane McKie and Jen Hadfield, who was busted carrying glasses down to the dishwasher. This great picture, by [...]

Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust 2009 Book Awards in partnership with the Scottish Arts Council

Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust

2009 Book Awards

in partnership with the Scottish Arts Council

Poetry shortlist

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“New Scottish poets launch first collections with Salt”

CAMBRIDGE, UK (Salt Publishing) ? In the week that Salt Publishing?s Tom Pow was shortlisted for the 2009 Scottish Arts Council Book Awards, the Cambridge-based press is launching two new Scottish poets as part of its award-winning international list.

Andrew Philip and Rob A Mackenzie [...]

“Salt launches its unique solution to world-wide sales representation”

CAMBRIDGE, UK (Salt Publishing) ? Salt Publishing announces its unique solution to worldwide sales representation. The Salt Virtual Rep a pioneering approach to informing booksellers about new titles, promotions, publicity and prizes, as well as what?s hot at Salt around the world.

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The Cover Factory have just designed Jamey Dunham’s cover

Check out the book on our Web site. Read samples and discover what readers are saying about this richly rewarding, pet-packed debut.

Jamey Dunham: The Bible of Lost Pets]]>

John Latta on Tim Atkins’ Folklore

It?s a skinned down elemental opening worthy of (reminiscent of) Cormac McCarthy (say, of Child of God). It echoes a ballad tradition (that ?Where you from boy,? particularly how it becomes a kind of refrain). If not strictly ballad, oral: both by the stutter-speech (relentlessly full-stop?d) and by the trailings-off (?clouds in the shape?) of [...]

Letters from our Editor

Pig Farming

Dear Mr Sump,

Re: your QUALC funding application for Ghost Bullion: Mining Towns Since Thatcher: An Anthology of New Sub-Social Poetry, edited by Barry Swabb.

I?m writing to draw attention to our new regional, local and international strategy paper ?Ending Up with Lincolnshire Art? this has pointed towards a new joined up strategy for ?needs-based [...]