Tower Poetry – A Tower Miscellany
Launch of A Tower Miscellany, edited by Peter McDonald, marking 10 years of Tower Poetry. Peter McDonald, poet, will host the event and introduce readings by some of the featured poets. Miscellany poets include Frances Leviston, Stephen Burt, Olivia Cole and Miriam Gamble and the event [...]
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Yesterday Simon Perril was a guest on BBC Radio Leicester to promote the city’s Independent Press Day (and World Poetry Day). He talked about the issues facing poetry, and more specifically independent publishers. He also read a few poems. The interview will be on BBC iPlayer until Thursday 25th March, so listen here while it’s [...] Background Salt Modern Voices is a brand new series from Salt which aims to deliver short works to new readerships around the world. These works may be interim or more fugitive publications, experiments or side-projects which have a distinctive literary merit, or they may be the initial works of new talents, issued like an EP prior [...] We are pleased to announce that this year’s Scott Prize winners will be published in October and will be available across the US, Australia and Europe. Meanwhile, here’s a reminder of who the winners are: Patrick Holland Patrick Holland grew up in outback Queensland, Australia, where his first jobs were horse work in Maranoa district and the [...] Our hats go off to Jim Murdoch for writing what has to be the most Unconventional Review of the Year. His review of Elizabeth Baines’ Too Many Magpies was written in installments as he read the book. It is a captivating read as we follow his reactions to the plot and the characters revealing themselves [...] StAnza 2010 starts this Wednesday, 17th March and runs until 21st March. Salt authors at the festival include Will Stone, Matthew Sweeney, Rob A. MacKenzie, Tom Pow and Victor Rodriguez Núñez. Check out the full list of events on the official website www.stanzapoetry.org. You can book tickets through the StAnza Box Office, Byre Theatre 01334 475000 or [...] Shad Thames, Broken Wharf by Chris McCabe Chris McCabe has written a brilliant new piece, a ‘play of voices’ exploring the history of London’s docks, with live music from Bleeding Heart Narrative and original film by Jack Wake-Walker. Iain Sinclair introduces Shad Thames, Broken Wharf on 18th March. Tickets cost £8 adv / £10 door | Starts [...] Chrissie Gittins was appointed Writer-in-residence with the borough of Lewisham in January. She has a ‘room of her own’ in the attic at Forest Hill Library. Lewisham Library Service is launching her third children’s poetry collection – A Humpback’s Wail at the Grade II listed Manor House Library on 24th April. She will be working [...] We are delighted to announce that Charlotte Prince has been appointed as Sales Manager. Charlotte will manage accounts with bookstores (both chains and independents) in the USA and Europe. She will continue to take Salt’s list to our established customers in the trade, as well as forging new relationships with booksellers. Charlotte will now [...] Edited by A. Robert Lee, this first book on Jim Barnes’ work, which fully recognises his mix of Anglo-Welsh and Choctaw Oklahoma heritage, could not be timelier – it is a long overdue tribute. “The one right word,” as he writes in ‘The Poet’s Paradise,’ has long been a Jim Barnes desideratum. Across an illustrious literary [...] |
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