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I keep a running list of books for the end of year posts in which I choose the best ones of the twelvemonth, and invariably there are a lot of contenders, too many to include them all, so some very good ones won’t make the final cut. Since we are half way through [...]

David Briggs chats about assembling his debut collection The Method Men with Salt, and balancing the writing with the day job, at Furtive11, an occasional blog written by poet Meryl Pugh. The name of the blog derives from the twin facts that a) ‘I skulk around London and don’t always confess to being a poet…’ and [...]

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Tamar Yoseloff has long been interested in urban landscapes, particularly ruined or decaying urban landscapes, and the first section of this new collection blends the often exhilarating feel of a modern city (not always the same one) with a consciousness of its past and its detritus.

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Maggi Andersen’s The Reluctant Marquess has become one of Salt’s fastest selling books of all time. Released under our Embrace imprint, edited by writer Jane Holland, the steamy regency romance has sold over 1,000 in three months and shows no signs of slowing down.

We asked Maggi what was the secret of her huge [...]

James Sutherland Smith reviews Imagined Rooms in The Bow Wow Shop

Tim Dooley’s Imagined Rooms is for the most part a collection of poems from the late 1970s to the late 1980s. Thirty-five of the fifty-five poems are in Dooley’s first collection, The Interrupted Dream. If this is put together with Dooley’s critically [...]

Ryan Van Winkle’s Crashaw-Prize winning début has been earning glowing reviews.

‘this collection seems to be at the forefront of a shift to something new, it is on the way to a perfection of some new movement…’ - The Glasgow Review

Most recently Isabel Galleymore at Eyewear said:

John Glenday is right to link Van Winkle’s [...]

Tamar Yoseloff’s fourth collection, City With Horns, published this month, moves through urban and rural landscapes. Whether in foggy London, a forgotten scrapyard or among artists in 1950s New York, she homes in, with pin-point accuracy, on moments of creativity and destruction, love, loss and longing. She talks here about her fascination with [...]

“You are a commissioning editor of the queer literary journal Chroma. What do you think defines ‘queer poetry’? Would you consider it to be a separate genre in itself, and a label that you would apply to your own work?” Read more [...]