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I heard Beers read several poems from her book and was astounded by their frank honesty and contemporary themes. In recent years I have grown incredibly tired of obtuse and gutless poetry and there is nothing obtuse or gutless about Beers’ poems. Read more… [...] I’ve never faced bankruptcy before. While I was a director at CUP I never felt a personal connection with business performance. It wasn’t my home, my children’s futures on the line. Read more … But when the going gets tough, the tough get going. Salt didn’t waste time whingeing or navel-gazing, but launched a campaign that is beautiful in its simplicity: Just One Book. Promoted virally online, particularly via Facebook, and backed-up by a witty YouTube spoof of the WWF Adopt a Polar Bear video, the [...]
I’m sitting on the steps of Federation Square, flicking through the pages of my notebook. Dark clouds lower upon me and the rain begins. The sizeable scattering of tourists and students dwindles as they attempt to escape the downpour. I spot a man walking into the Time Out cafe. He has a [...] What do you say to an author when you’re not quite sure what’s going on? Back in the Fulbourn office, everyone has been busy dispatching orders and doing their best to save the business. I feel a little guilty being so far away, unable to get my hands dirty with packaging and taking [...] Review: The Opposite Of Cabbage , by Rob A Mackenzie Mackenzie handles the ?glamorous machinery? of poetry very well, in a number of technically deft pieces, and many of these pieces are highly musical, but he?s never in thrall to formal constraints. And, while he generally maintains a quietly ironic distance, [...] Review: The Ambulance Box , by Andrew Philip Salt, 2009, ?12.99 Dotted throughout this memorable debut collection (in Salt?s now-familiar elegant hardback style) are a series of four very brief Hebridean Thumbnails. The first reads simply (but very evocatively) ?islands buried in the sky?s white sands?. And not only [...] Some months back I noted Katy Evans-Bush’s “appearance” on Jilly Dybka’s Poetry Hut Blog as an innovation: a virtual author’s tour. Here I just want to add that because of her interview, I ordered a copy of her first collection, Me and the Dead , which I heartily recommend. Read more [...] The Just One Book Campaign Four days ago the phone rang and one of our suppliers delivered the news that they were putting all further work on hold. We?d run out of credit. We looked at cash and realised we had two weeks left. What followed has been exhausting and astonishing in [...] |
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