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Salt moves offices

We?ve moved offices to London.

Our new address is

Salt Publishing Ltd Fourth floor 2 Tavistock Place Bloomsbury LONDON WC1H 9RA

Salt is opening additional offices in London this month, and we are offering two internships from June onwards to support our UK sales and editorial team during this exciting expansion. The two positions are for a graphic designer to work on books, covers and Web projects and a book publicist to complement our expanding [...]

Acclaimed Anishinaabe poets Gordon Henry, Jr. and Kimberly Bleaser will be reading from their work at the venues below. Both poets, enrolled members of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, have published their most recent collections with Salt Publishing?s exciting ?Earthworks? series.

Thursday 25th June 2009 19.00-21.00 Liverpool Poetry Caf?, The Bluecoat

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I’ve never faced bankruptcy before. While I was a director at CUP I never felt a personal connection with business performance. It wasn’t my home, my children’s futures on the line.

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But when the going gets tough, the tough get going. Salt didn’t waste time whingeing or navel-gazing, but launched a campaign that is beautiful in its simplicity: Just One Book. Promoted virally online, particularly via Facebook, and backed-up by a witty YouTube spoof of the WWF Adopt a Polar Bear video, the [...]

Review: The Opposite Of Cabbage , by Rob A Mackenzie

Mackenzie handles the ?glamorous machinery? of poetry very well, in a number of technically deft pieces, and many of these pieces are highly musical, but he?s never in thrall to formal constraints. And, while he generally maintains a quietly ironic distance, [...]

Review: The Ambulance Box , by Andrew Philip Salt, 2009, ?12.99

Dotted throughout this memorable debut collection (in Salt?s now-familiar elegant hardback style) are a series of four very brief Hebridean Thumbnails.

The first reads simply (but very evocatively) ?islands buried in the sky?s white sands?. And not only [...]

Some months back I noted Katy Evans-Bush’s “appearance” on Jilly Dybka’s Poetry Hut Blog as an innovation: a virtual author’s tour. Here I just want to add that because of her interview, I ordered a copy of her first collection, Me and the Dead , which I heartily recommend.

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Salt?s spoof of the WWF Adopt a Polar Bear advert ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iekb-ZARg3s ) conceals a serious message:

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Wednesday, May 20, 2009

As many of you will know, Jen and I have been struggling to keep Salt moving since June last year when the economic downturn began to affect our press. Our three year funding ends this year: we’ve ?4,000 due from Arts Council England in a final payment, but cannot [...]