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Last night over fifty people squeezed into the barn at The Punter in Cambridge to witness the inaugural Salt Cellars reading event. Ten Salt authors read a mixture of poetry and short stories to a captivated audience. 

Chris began the evening by saying a few words about the Salt Cellars initiative. Whilst people rustled through [...]

Eleanor Rees’ poem ‘Night Vision’ has been made into a short film. Eleanor reads the poem, accompanied by some beautiful cinematography. Watch the film here. 

‘Night Vision’ is the opening poem of Eleanor Rees’ debut collection Andraste’s Hair, available from the online shop at  £10.39. Her new collection Eliza and the Bear is also available [...]

Jasmine Donahaye’s collection Self-Portrait as Ruth has been reviewed in the US Forward newspaper.

Read the review and listen to Jasmine read her poems.

Self-Portrait as Ruth is available to buy from our online shop for £10.39

Simon Barraclough made a radio appearance on The Verb on Friday evening. He read his new commissioned poem about the Hiroshima & Nagasaki survivor Tsutomu Yamaguchi.

Listen to Simon read and talk about the process of writing the poem. It’s about 8.30 minutes into the show.

Eliza and the Bear is Eleanor Rees’ powerful new collection of nocturnal encounters. Her poems embrace the elements as fairy stories of psychic collisions of both body and desire. Playing the role of mythologiser and tale teller, Eleanor Rees reimagines the female experience with sensual and erotic urgency.

Watch Eleanor reading ‘Changeling’ at the Salt Christmas [...]

Today is my last day in the office until the new year. I’m off to Melbourne for a few weeks….chance to spend Christmas in the sun for a change.

But I’m not leaving without wishing everyone a joyful Christmas. I’ve hidden these two presents under the tree….but I’ll let you open them now….go on…..don’t be shy:

Matthew [...]

Send us your favourite line from a Salt book

We want you to send us a 10-15 second video of you reading your favourite line from a Salt book.

As part of our 10th Anniversary celebrations we’ll be making a film of all your responses, to be unveiled at the end of January.

So, choose your favourite line, [...]

It seems Santa’s helpers have taken away some of our blog posts to send as Christmas presents to particularly good children. But we didn’t want to leave you without our little video.

Thank you for your order is a documentary account of our distribution process. It details the care and love we put into each and [...]

Order your Salt Christmas Bundles today, today, TODAY.

Yes, that’s right. Do it now. WHY? Because we don’t want them to be Salt Slightly After Christmas Bundles.

They’re only available until 15 December, but we want to get them to you in time to wrap up and place under your tree. Christmas is stressful enough without having [...]

Salt author Philip Wells (the Firepoet) performed at the Royal Albert Hall on Saturday night, as part of the Born Free Foundation’s Wild and Live event.

An audience of over 4,000 people watched the concert, that included a huge list of well-known names, such as Bryan Adams, Rolf Harris, and even Peter Andre.

Our congratulations to Philip [...]