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Wednesday 9th March 2011

1pm-2.30pm / Visitors welcome £4 : Members £2

Will Stone, poet and literary translator, will be reading poems from his international prize-winning collection Glaciation (Salt 2007) and discussing the art of translating poetry at the Uni-verse International Poetry Group. Soft drinks will be provided, please bring your own snacks/sandwiches. [...]

The first thing you’ll note about Jared Randall’s debut poetry book, Apocryphal Road Code, is the striking cover design: a grey-toned mesmerizing close-up of a bearded man staring straight into your soul. The image is split vertically between the front and back covers, perhaps denoting the duality in Randall’s poems, which invoke both [...]

Sue Hubbard’s Eurydice has now been fully restored in the Waterloo underpass. Check out award-winning film maker Jonas Grimas’ video about the restoration by following this link:

Sue Hubbard’s Eurydice from jonas grimas on Vimeo.

Sue also read Eurydice in full and discussed the restoration of her poem in the tunnel at [...]

After a year-long campaign London’s largest public art poem, which was painted over last autumn by Network Rail, is about to be restored in the underpass at Waterloo that leads to the IMAX cinema

Ten years ago, as part of the renovation of the South Bank undertaken by Avery Architects, the Arts Council [...]

Tim Dooley’s Imagined Rooms collects many of the poems first published in the 1980s with a number of other poems hitherto unpublished in book form. It’s quietly wonderful, and speaks to anyone conscious of the absurdity of living halfway between the private and public worlds. Tim kindly agreed to answer my questions about [...]

Tony Williams says we shouldn’t blush to help people discover poems

Earlier in the year I had the strange experience of buying a new book of poems (John Berryman’s The Dream Songs, as it happens), and discovering from the distributor’s slip left inside that it had stood on the shelf in the bookshop, waiting [...]

Salt author Tony Williams is running a competition to win a signed copy of his latest collection The Corner of Arundel Lane and Charles Street.

Check out his blog for more details: http://aye-lass.blogspot.com/2010/09/competition-win-copy-of-my-book.html

A winner will be drawn from a hat on Friday 17th September 2010. Good [...]

We were looking at her poem ‘Bear-Awareness and Self-Defence Classes’ (subtitled ‘Or Fathers and Husbands’). Like many of Siân’s poems it is short and made of words and sentences an eight-year old could read. But while its subject matter is about what happens to some children, it is absolutely not a poem for [...]

Andrew Philip has posted a fantastic interview with Tania Hershman on his blog Tonguefire.

Please do check it out here: http://wp.me/pBKHO-gJ

Andrew Philip’s The Ambulance Box and Tania Hershman’s The White Road and Other Stories are both available NOW from our online [...]