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 early February choose our winners. This will better [...]
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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 [...] 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”. He may well have made an exception for someone [...] 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. Network Rail have finally given their permission – if we can raise [...] 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 reimagines the female experience with sensual and erotic urgency. Watch Eleanor reading ‘Changeling’ at [...] Today is my last day in the office until the new year. I’m off to Melbourne for a few weeks….chance to spend Christmas in the sun for a change. But I’m not leaving without wishing everyone a joyful Christmas. I’ve hidden these two presents under the tree….but I’ll let you open them now….go on…..don’t [...]
Eleanor Rees will be reading from her latest work, Eliza and the Bear and will be interviewed on BBC Radio 3′s The Verb tomorrow, 11th December 2009. Tune in and enjoy her poetry alongside some soothing harp sounds at 21:15. Rees’ books Eliza and the [...] Send us your favourite line from a Salt book We want you to send us a 10-15 second video of you reading your favourite line from a Salt book. As part of our 10th Anniversary celebrations we’ll be making a film of all your responses, to be unveiled at the end of January. So, [...] It seems Santa’s helpers have taken away some of our blog posts to send as Christmas presents to particularly good children. But we didn’t want to leave you without our little video. Thank you for your order is a documentary account of our distribution process. It details the care and love we put [...] Order your Salt Christmas Bundles today, today, TODAY. Yes, that’s right. Do it now. WHY? Because we don’t want them to be Salt Slightly After Christmas Bundles. They’re only available until 15 December, but we want to get them to you in time to wrap up and place under your tree. Christmas is stressful [...] |
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