Powell’s Books of Oregon choose Shaindel Beers for their summer reads

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 [...]

Jared Stanley launches Book Made of Forest

Friday, May 29th at 8:00
Canessa Gallery
708 Montgomery Street,
San Francisco, CA 94111
415.392.1768

Please join us for this most excellent reading at Canessa Park

David Highsmith is the proprietor of Books & Bookshelves in San Francisco. Recent poems are forthcoming in the Antioch Review, Beatitude, Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, Right Hand Pointing, and Sawbuck. His books [...]

Salt on The Bookseller Blog

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.

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Shirley Dent on the Just One Book Campaign in The Guardian

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 [...]

Tom Shapcott

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 walking stick and [...]

Salt survival and Michael Farrell

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 calls.

It [...]

Matt Merritt explores the glorious machinery of poetry in Mackenzie’s debut

Review:
The Opposite Of Cabbage
, by Rob A Mackenzie

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Matt Merritt reviews The Ambulance Box

Review:
The Ambulance Box
, by Andrew Philip
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Katy Evans-Bush?s Debut on The Perpetual Bird

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 [...]

“Get by with a little help …” the Just One Book Campaign spreads

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 [...]