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Will Stone’s Drawing in Ash wins 3:AM Magazine’s 2011 Award for Best Poetry Book.

“In his fine debut collection The Frost Fairs (Salt, £9.99), John McCullough turns out tender love poems and imaginative thought experiments with equal aplomb.” —Suzi Feay The Independent

I’m delighted to announce the development of a major new anthology from Salt, Shared Earth: The Salt Book of Modern European Poetry will be published in National Poetry Month 2013.

We’re taking submissions for this book, if you would like to send translations, please email chris at saltpublishing dot [...]

Anthony Joseph with, left to right, Ian McMillan, Colin Webster and Andrew John in the BBC studio recording The Verb.

Tim Cumming launches his new collection The Rapture upstairs at The Ritzy this Sunday from 8pm to a soundtrack of high quality Balkan sounds from author and DJ Garth Cartwright and Leon Parker. There will also be a screening of short film poems as a mesmerising, mind-melting backdrop to the word-sound power. Upstairs at [...]

Alan Baker finds The Best British Poetry 2011 too conservative in Stride Magazine.

If you’re trying to pitch a book at a (very large) market of ‘newcomers’ and ‘all creative writing students in the UK’ then claiming that it contains the best poetry is going to be very useful to you. But, motive or [...]

Angela Topping assesses The Best British Poetry 2011 in Stride Magazine.

For poets, this is a useful anthology because Lumsden’s choices are drawn from a wide range of UK poetry magazines and each poem is labelled with the source. In the back there is a handy alphabetical list of quality poetry magazines with their [...]

Terrific review of The Best British Poetry 2011 by Aime Williams at The Oxonian Review

“The Best British Poetry 2011, edited by Roddy Lumsden, is an anthology of meticulous compilation: after a year spent foraging in the various British literary magazines, Lumsden has gathered 70 poems—representing 70 poets. In a format openly indebted to [...]