Due to the larger number of entries in this year’s Crashaw Prize we’ve had to spend more time reading the manuscripts. As a result we’re going to do two new things to support the writers: we will shortly announce a shortlist and in late January or earl …

Get your snowman grin on… Thank you for all your fantastic support during 2009… …and for helping Salt see another year in. We hope you’ll keep on buying “Just One Book” Salty the Snowman says “Thank you, to all our customers, each and every one!” Wishi …

This week’s TLS contains two reviews of Salt titles. Ben Wilkinson on Mark Waldron’s The Brand New Dark The late American comic Bill Hicks once began a stand-up routine with the deadpan line “If you work in advertising or marketing, kill yourself now”. …

Railtrack are supporting the reinstatement of the poem in Waterloo underpass, but we now need to raise funds to enable City and Guilds to recreate the work: Dear Poetry Supporters, Today we got one stage nearer to having the poem being re-instated. Net …

Eliza and the Bear is Eleanor Rees’ powerful new collection of nocturnal encounters. Her poems embrace the elements as fairy stories of psychic collisions of both body and desire. Playing the role of mythologiser and tale teller, Eleanor Rees reimagine …