Salt Plus with Roddy Lumsden (take note, Salt Cellars London)

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Saturday, 20 February 2010 19:30 – 21:30 The Poetry Cafe 22 Betterton Street London, United Kingdom

Six poets at The Poetry Cafe

Roddy Lumsden is joined by

Abi Curtis Katy Evans-Bush Luke Kennard Diana Pooley Mark [...]

Salt Cellars launch a great success

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 [...]

A beautiful cinematic version of Eleanor Rees' poem 'Night Vision'

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 [...]

Salt Web site reaches new milestone

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.

Abi Curtis reviewed in Acumen 66

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’ [...]

Jill McDonough wins the 2010 Witter Bynner Award

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 [...]

Jasmine Donahaye reviewed in The Forward

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 [...]

Simon Barraclough on Radio 3′s The Verb

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 [...]

The Scott Prize Shortlist is Announced

We are delighted to announce the shortlist of the inaugural Scott Prize for Short Fiction, an important new venture for Salt as we continue to discover and nurture new talent from around the English-speaking world. The prize forms part of Salt’s commitment to the short story, to debut collections and to our vision [...]

The 2009 Crashaw Prize Shortlist

The 2009 Crashaw Prize Shortlist

The 2009 Crashaw Prize attracted 120 full length manuscripts from poets in the UK and Ireland, the USA, Australia and New Zealand. The international prize continues to provide an extraordinary shapshot of new writing from most of the English-speaking world, as such it is the only prize of [...]