http://www.saltpublishing.com/news.xml Publishing news from Salt, the independent literary press Fri, 29 May 2009 06:48:22 GMT http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/may/27/poetry-salt-publishing Pandas and poetry: Salt Publishing spoofs WWF video to save itselfContemporary poetry champion Salt Publishing is in trouble, but you can save it book by book. Wed, 27 May 2009 06:47:14 GMT http://www.saltpublishing.com/blogs/confidential.php?itemid=632 Four days ago the phone rang and one of our suppliers delivered the news that they were putting all further work on hold. We’d run out of credit. We looked at cash and realised we had two weeks left. What followed has been exhausting and astonishing in equal measure. Sat, 23 May 2009 06:51:59 GMT http://www.saltpublishing.com/blogs/confidential.php?itemid=622 Salt goes public in its attempts to develop sales to put poetry sales back on firmer financial footing. Wed, 20 May 2009 06:49:04 GMT http://www.thebookseller.com/news/81998-orange-new-writers-shortlist-revealed.html The Orange Award for New Writers has revealed its shortlist for 2009, with three writers chosen from 80 up for the £10,000 prize. Commenting on the shortlist, chair of the judges Mishal Husain says: "We would also like to commend two other authors, Tania Hershman and CE Morgan, whose work stood out for its remarkable quality.” Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:54:53 GMT http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/poetry/article6028124.ece On April25, 1915, soldiers from the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps attempted to disembark to help in the attack on the Turkish forces - then allied with Germany - who held the crucial waterway across the Dardanelles. Many hundreds of Anzacs died on that day and in the days that followed. Those that survived did not do much better: a long battle of attrition followed, dysentery and malaria were rife and clouds of black flies descended. This is one of the scenes behind Josephine Balmer's brilliant and original collection The Word for Sorrow. Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:53:33 GMT http://www.scottisharts.org.uk/1/latestnews/1006277.aspx Tom Pow’s powerful new collection of poetry explores the imaginative legacy of a nineteenth-century lunatic asylum, the Crichton, drawing on the richly-documented history of the site. The Crichton, now part of Glasgow University’s Crichton Campus in Dumfries is now Pow’s workplace where he is Senior lecturer in Creative Writing. Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:52:02 GMT http://www.saltpublishing.com/saltmagazine/issues/02/index.htm Poems, essays, memoirs, plus a feature on Davis Schneiderman, sit alongside new works by Lee Ranaldo and translations of Michel Houellebecq. Check out the Salt’s latest issue now. Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:25:27 GMT http://www.saltpublishing.com/horizon/issues/02/index.htm Readers! Where would we be without them? This issue of Horizon Review is dedicated to all the readers out there. Some of you will be writers too. Some of you are not writers, but love reading for the pleasures and provocations it brings into your life. Some of you will be artists, teachers, publishers, playwrights, students, poets, refuse-collectors, theatre-goers, travelling salespeople. Some of you may have come to this page in error. Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:23:31 GMT http://saltpublishing.com/blogs/confidential.php?itemid=547 Salt’s Jen Hamilton-Emery says of this innovation: ‘Virtual Rep is a goody, he’s nicely convenient, always on time and works all the hours God sends. He doesn’t drink all your coffee or need to nip out for a quick fag. He’ll pay you a visit whenever you want. He keeps gossip to a minimum, though given that can be fun, you can always catch up with him on his Facebook page. If you want to meet him in the flesh, just ask and we’ll arrange a visit, however this won’t be accompanied by the Turkish folk band we use for his Web appearances.’ Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:58:09 GMT http://saltpublishing.com/blogs/confidential.php?itemid=548 In the week that Salt Publishing’s Tom Pow was shortlisted for the 2009 Scottish Arts Council Book Awards, the Cambridge-based press is launching two new Scottish poets as part of its award-winning international list. Andrew Philip and Rob A Mackenzie have already attracted critical attention for their work, with leading Scottish poets such as W.N. Herbert sitting up and taking notice. “For the past ten years or so there has been something ominously like a lull in the publishing of new Scottish voices,” says Herbert. “Our wait had reached the toe-tapping, watch-checking stage, and it’s a relief to say it’s over. Andrew Philip is part of a significant group of younger poets who have digested the grandeur and diversity of the preceding generations of Scottish poets.” Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:00:46 GMT