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Jasmine Donahaye will be reading at the Hay Festival between 12.30 and 1pm tomorrow (Monday 31 May) in the Culture Cymru tent, in celebration of her long-listing for Wales Book of the Year. Find out more here.

If you’re going to the festival, make sure to stop by and hear her read from Self-Portrait as Ruth, her [...]

“I was going to say something, / and stopped”.  Polish-born Agnieszka Studzinska’s choice, for the epigraph to her interesting and intriguing first collection, of these deceptively straightforward words from Irish poet Thomas Kinsella’s poem ‘Ancestor’, provides an early indicator as to how the entire collection may best be read.  In common with Kinsella’s New Poems 1973, [...]

Dear Reader,

Jen and I fell in love with this book. Charles’ agent sent us some information on the title: we were hooked. Pretty soon we were in touch with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt his US publishers and had the US edition in our hands. Every story had us laughing at its ingenuity and dazzle. A [...]

Salt launches Modern Voices – Away from the City – Out now for £5.20

Modern Voices is a brand new series from Salt which aims to deliver short works to new readerships around the world. Today we’re launching Lee Smith’s Away from the City, the first book in the series. 

Modern Voices is designed to allow us to [...]

Simon Perril’s new collection Nitrate has been reviewed on the Hand + Star website. Take a look here.

Nitrate is available now from our online store, for only £7.99 [...]

Thursday 10 June @ 6.30pm

Poetry Ireland in association with Salt Publishing presents
the launch of Fade Street by Mark Granier

Unitarian Church, 112 St Stephen’s Green West, D2

The title poem in Mark Granier’s third collection, Fade Street, is based on a photograph taken in Dublin in 1878. Positioning itself behind the camera, it sets the photographer’s obsession, to [...]