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We certainly agree with Samuel Watson that you can’t go wrong with poetry on Valentine’s Day — he features The Salt Book of Younger Poets in his top ten. Don’t miss it, your significant other will simply love it.

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Crashaw Prize winners Nathan Hoks, Rebecca Lehmann, Jared Stanley and Catherine Theis will all be reading at the AWP Conference in Chicago on Thursday March 1st 2012, 7 PM. The Hopleaf

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This year The Crashaw Prize — England’s only international prize for full-length collections of poetry — received more than eighty entries from four continents; however, worryingly, only sixteen entries were from women.

The prize, now in its fourth year, attracts attention from around the English-speaking world and the winning writers, along with [...]

Ian Duhig, Michael Symmons Roberts and Chris Emery read at Blackwell’s, Oxford Road, Manchester on April 12th.

Don’t miss a super line up for the National Poetry Month reading in Manchester on April 12th.  More information on Facebook.

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Unmissable video of Type Bookstore in Toronto (883 Queen Street West, (416) 366-8973).

You can read an interview with Sean Ohlenkamp about this video at the National Post website.

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 [...]