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Maintain your Salt intake at healthy levels with SALT PLUS Saturday, 20 February 2010 Six poets at The Poetry Cafe Roddy Lumsden is joined by Abi Curtis
Last night over fifty people squeezed into the barn at The Punter in Cambridge to witness the inaugural Salt Cellars reading event. Ten Salt authors read a mixture of poetry and short stories to a captivated audience. Chris began the evening by saying a few words about the Salt Cellars initiative. Whilst people rustled through [...]
Eleanor Rees’ poem ‘Night Vision’ has been made into a short film. Eleanor reads the poem, accompanied by some beautiful cinematography. Watch the film here. ‘Night Vision’ is the opening poem of Eleanor Rees’ debut collection Andraste’s Hair, available from the online shop at £10.39. Her new collection Eliza and the Bear is also available [...] ‘Contourlines‘ is a unique anthology of new responses to landscape by some of our leading contemporary poets. Commissioned by Magdalene College, Cambridge, as part of the College’s year-long Festival of Landscape, and to commemorate the 800th anniversary of the University, the book reflects those traits of innovation and tradition, reflection and intellectual engagement, humanity and enthusiasm, of which [...] Today we’ve reached a new height with 27 million hits to our Web site. That’s 2.1 million page views and over 619,000 unique visitors. Over 20 million files have been downloaded, shifting over 484 million kilobytes of data. Thank you for visiting us. Graham Burchell opens his review “I have discovered a wonderful book of light: real, surreal, atmospheric, exotic and alien.” “Although as mentioned earlier, there is a cohesive link from one poem to the next, it is wonderful to move from ‘Michaelangelo’s Meals’ to “The Ghost of a Nature Reserve’ or from ‘Oz’ to Bodmin [...] January 21, 2010 Poet Laureate Chooses Jill McDonough and Atsuro Riley For 13th Annual Witter Bynner Award and Reading, Feb. 18 Poet Laureate Kay Ryan has chosen two talented voices in poetry, Jill McDonough and Atsuro Riley, for the 2010 Witter Bynner Fellowships, and will introduce the poets on Feb. 18 at the Library of Congress. McDonough, from [...]
Jasmine Donahaye’s collection Self-Portrait as Ruth has been reviewed in the US Forward newspaper. Read the review and listen to Jasmine read her poems. Self-Portrait as Ruth is available to buy from our online shop for £10.39 Emily Benet talks to Mslexia Magazine about her new book ‘Shop Girl Diaries’. Read the full article at: http://emilybenet.blogspot.com
Simon Barraclough made a radio appearance on The Verb on Friday evening. He read his new commissioned poem about the Hiroshima & Nagasaki survivor Tsutomu Yamaguchi. Listen to Simon read and talk about the process of writing the poem. It’s about 8.30 minutes into the show. |
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