Hilary Menos interviews Chris Hamilton-Emery about Salt and life in poetry
Hilary Menos of The Friday Poem talks to Chris Hamilton-Emery, poet and director of Salt Publishing, about coming back to the poetry community, the new Salt Modern Poets list, building readerships, and writing every day “without hope and without despair.”
Hilary Menos was born in Luton in 1964 and read Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Wadham College, Oxford. She took a diploma in Graphic Origination and Reproduction and a postgraduate diploma in Journalism, both at the London College of Printing, where she was also President of the Student Union 1987–88. She then worked as a food journalist in London, including a stint as a restaurant critic with Time Out, before moving to Devon in 1997 to renovate a Domesday Manor and bring up her three sons, Jethro, Bruno and Linus.