Catherine Theis’s The Fraud of Good Sleep begins with an epigraph from Catullus: “I hate and I love. Why do I do it, you may ask? / I don’t know, but I feel it happening, and it burns me up.” Indeed, the book draws extensively on antiquity for its them …

by Aaron Fagan “What is life? It is the flash of the firefly in the night. It is the breath of the buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.” —Crowfoot’s last words, 1890 Author photo …

Last week authors linked by Salt came together to read from their short stories for the Wisewords women’s arts festival in Spitalfields, an event organized by Salt author Jay Merill and one of a series of Wednesday readings for the Wisewords book club …

Win a one of three free copies of Terry Ann Thaxton’s amazing new debut collection, Getaway Girl — to enter simply answer the three questions below and email your entries to competitions@saltpublishing.com. We’ll choose three random winners from the co …

The Road Not Taken Often Enough, 18 Mar 2011 ByMark Burnhope Review of I Sing of Bricks (Salt Modern Voices) (Paperback) Reading Angela Topping’s poetry, I’m reminded of Robert Frost: not always in the way she writes, but because what she writes demons …