Anthony Caleshu’s “Of Whales” is named a Daily Telegraph Book of the Year

Anthony Caleshu’s Of Whales is named as a Daily Telegraph Book of the Year.

[T]he mad Melvillean poetry of Anthony Caleshu’s collection, Of Whales (Salt), an imaginative update of the equally subversive Moby-Dick for the 21st century.

A short interview with Anthony Caleshu, author of Of Whales: in Print, in Paint, in [...]

On tour with Ryan Van Winkle

Here’s a taster of how Ryan’s Virtual Book Tour has been progressing: 12 November: leesmithwriter.com

Ryan discussed his dream poet/musician collaboration, amongst other things, whilst preparing to read at the Crashaw Prize launch at the Phoenix Artist Club  watch the video

14 November: Our sweet old etcetera…

What to your ear and eye [...]

Children’s poetry event at London Review Bookshop on Sunday

Philip Gross and Angela Topping will be reading at the London Review Bookshop’s FIRST EVER children’s poetry event, this Sunday 28th November

Bring your kids down to the London Review Bookshop on Sunday, to see TS Eliot Prize winning poet, Philip Gross, and Angela Topping read from their Salt Children’s Poetry books. It promises [...]

#CoverDesignBlitz launching our new romance imprint Embrace Books!

This week was the week we began work on our new romance imprint, Embrace Books. Lots of fun and a super challenge for the Cover Factory to get to grips with the first four romances, each dramatically different in style from period dramas to suspense stories and plenty of sexual tension along the way. [...]

Ronnie McGrath on Data Trace being grown up poetry

Ronnie McGrath on

Data Trace

“This is how space begins, with words only, signs traced on the blank page. To describe space: to name it, to trace it, like those portolano-makers who saturated the coastlines with the names of harbours, the names of capes, the names of inlets, until in the end the land was only [...]

It’s National Short Story Week!

Since its launch in September, writers and readers around the country have been preparing for the first UK National Short Story Week. We are delighted to report on what some of our authors are up to this week and how you can join them:

Tuesday, 23rd November: New Writing South are hosting the [...]

Tony Williams would like to send you a Christmas message

It’s Chriiiiisssstmas from Tony Williams on Vimeo.

Tony’s book is just out in paperback with a whopping discount in our online store and free postage to boot. We’ll pop it in a sack, drop it on a Salty sleigh and whiz it over to you…

Head over to Tony’s grotto now: http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/smp/9781844719266.htm [...]

Eleanor Cooke in interview with her daughter, Siân Hughes

Salt invited Eleanor Cooke and her daughter Siân Hughes, winner of the 2010 Seamus Heaney Centre Prize for Poetry, to interview each other about their work.

Eleanor Cooke lives in Cheshire with her husband, the artist Hugh Child, and has four children. She has worked as a writer in schools, colleges, university departments, galleries [...]

Spellbound children with Cuckoo Rock by Phil Bowen

Phil Bowen has been busy with readings at schools since July 2010 until now. If you are interested in Phil performing a reading at your school as well, do let us know.

Some feedback from the readings:

‘…thanks so much for your contribution at Port Eliot – you could see the kids were really [...]

International wind at Salt

We are two international MA Publishing students from Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge currently working at Salt as publishing assistants.

Came just at the right time to see the Christmas business. Lots of promotions to do, people to contact, books to mail out, blog entries to compose. It is great fun to put into [...]