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It’s 1pm when the phone rings. ‘Hi it’s David here, how you going?’ I tell him I’m well, and explain what I’m doing in Melbourne. We talk about Salt’s financial troubles, and he seems a little surprised at how bad it is. I tell him we hope to pull through, and that some [...] Salt?s spoof of the WWF Adopt a Polar Bear advert ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iekb-ZARg3s ) conceals a serious message: tags: save?salt?publishing Geoff Lemon – Photo by Michael Reynolds It’s a quiet Tuesday evening. A man walks out of the noodle bar, cars drift past, and the remaining city workers arrive home late once more. In the upstairs room of a south Melbourne bar a small, black lectern waits nervously. Red walls and sporadic seating [...] Wednesday, May 20, 2009 As many of you will know, Jen and I have been struggling to keep Salt moving since June last year when the economic downturn began to affect our press. Our three year funding ends this year: we’ve ?4,000 due from Arts Council England in a final payment, but cannot [...] I’m deeply saddened to report that Michael Murphy, the editor of Kenneth Allott’s Collected Poems has died. He was aged 43. Michael was a superb scholar and a wonderful editor to work with. Everyone at Salt offers his family and friends out sincere condolences. Read more… Salt author, Elizabeth Baines , has written an article for the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain charting the return of the short story. You can read it online here . tags: Elizabeth?Baines
I’m Lee. I’ve been working at Salt for a while now. But the Fulbourn office has finally got the better of me. Rainy tea-drinking mornings, Chris and Jen’s excessive coffee-making demands, and a less-than-dependable wireless connection forced me to consider extending the Salt empire to a more exotic location. I’m in Melbourne for [...] Anthony Joseph Book Launch – BIRD HEAD SON Hosted by renaissance one 03 June 2009 18:00 – 20:00 Cafe Koha 11 St Martins Lane LONDON WC2N 4AJ Written over a 5 year period, the autobiographical poems in ?Bird Head Son? cover the poet?s ?1st life? in Trinidad, beginning with his departure from [...] Week one?s repping tour takes me local. Actually, week one was a hundred phone calls to find openings, ones where booksellers didn?t laugh at our core genres: poetry and short stories. No one hung up, not exactly. There were a few poignant silences. ?Yes, we?re the UK?s largest poetry and short story publisher, ? [...] |
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