Ride the Word XIX

on the road to The CAFE YUMCHAA Free Admission 45 Berwick Street, Soho, London W.1

Wed 31 March  7- 9.15pm

Cast: Vincent De Souza (Salt)

Mario Petrucci (RTW Launch reading of ‘i tulips’, Enitharmon) Martyn Crucefix (Enitharmon) Jay Merill (Reading from God of the Pigeons coming out from Salt in April 2010) Plus guests: [...]

Spring titles from Salt!

DAVID BRIGGS The Method Men http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/smp/9781844717286.htm

RACHEL BLAU DuPLESSIS Pitch: Drafts 77–95 http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/smp/9781844717477.htm

AARON FAGAN Echo Train http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/smp/9781844717491.htm

ROSIE GARNER The Rain Diaries http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/smp/9781844715183.htm

MARK GRANIER Fade Street http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/smp/9781844717361.htm

BRIAN HENRY Wings Without Birds http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/smp/9781844717484.htm

SIMON PERRIL Nitrate http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/smp/9781844717774.htm

AGNIESZKA STUDZINSKA Snow Calling http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/smp/9781844715596.htm

ROBERT SULLIVAN Shout Ha! To The Sky http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/smp/9781844714551.htm

New in [...]

Salt seeks to build US editorial poetry team

Salt is looking to extend our current US editorial team as we plan to further develop our American poetry publishing in the years ahead. The positions will be unpaid and are suitable for individuals seeking to develop a career in publishing, or seeking to complement their work within an institutional writing program, and [...]

Andrew Philip shortlisted for Scottish Book of the Year

Andrew Philip’s The Ambulance Box has been shortlisted for the First Book category in the Scottish Arts Council’s prestigious Book of the Year Awards. The SAC had this to say:

“Andrew Philip’s collection of poems of unsentimental and unsettling beauty – in both plangently beautiful English and Scots – in The [...]

Lee Smith exhibition in Cambridge this Friday

I’ll be exhibiting some of my poems and photographs on Friday evening (26th March) from 6-9pm at the Ruskin Gallery, ARU, Cambridge. Click here for more information.

Salt Author at The Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival

Tower Poetry – A Tower Miscellany Launch of A Tower Miscellany, edited by Peter McDonald, marking 10 years of Tower Poetry. Peter McDonald, poet, will host the event and introduce readings by some of the featured poets. Miscellany poets include Frances Leviston, Stephen Burt, Olivia Cole and Miriam Gamble and the event will [...]

Simon Perril on Radio Leicester

Yesterday Simon Perril was a guest on BBC Radio Leicester to promote the city’s Independent Press Day (and World Poetry Day).

He talked about the issues facing poetry, and more specifically independent publishers. He also read a few poems.

The interview will be on BBC iPlayer until Thursday 25th March, so [...]

Short Circuit Blog Tour

Over the last few months, our short fiction writing guide, Short Circuit, has been making its way around a number of very nice blogs, accompanied by its editor, Vanessa Gebbie, who has answered questions about the book and short story writing and other things too.

Take a look at these:

Sally [...]

Desperate For Love Poetry Reading

Salt authors Geraldine Monk and Alan Harsley will be reading from their work on 23rd March 2010 at the Desparate For Love Poetry Reading. This event will be held at the Komedia Studio Bar, Gardner St, Brighton, starts at 8pm and costs £4.

Underground punk rock legend Jon Slade (Comet [...]

Salt Modern Voices — an innovative and expansive new publishing development at Salt

Background

Salt Modern Voices is a brand new series from Salt which aims to deliver short works to new readerships around the world. These works may be interim or more fugitive publications, experiments or side-projects which have a distinctive literary merit, or they may be the initial works of new talents, issued like an [...]