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Weeping for the Lovely Phantoms
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SynopsisMiss Havisham, Sharon Tate, the Hitchcock Blonde, the Woman who Became a Sofa: all lovely phantoms with stories to tell. This is poetry that tests the boundaries of acceptable subject...
Wan-Hu’s Flying Chair
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Synopsis Wan-Hu’s Flying Chair explores the ‘furious stillness’ of love and art. From Chinese legends to scenes from artists’ studios, these poems open apertures on twilit worlds, where the ‘elastic...
Wallace Stevens
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SynopsisA new study of the major poems of Wallace Stevens, which have been very influential both in accounts of American modernism and on later poetries. The book aims to address...
Voyaging Out
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SynopsisVoyaging Out is the tenth volume of Peter Abbs’ poetry.His new book divides into two parts. The first half, Peregrinations, offers an anthology of poems which range from the experience...
Viva la Vida
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SynopsisThis is the seventh volume of Peter Abbs’ poetry. Dana Gioia, the American poet and critic, described Peter Abbs as ‘the rarest of writers – a philosophical poet with a...
Versary
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Synopsis ‘Soap opera, Country & Western and popular culture in all respects are combined with Renaissance wit, heartbreak and a wicked sense of humour – Lilley’s poems abound in warmth...
Veronica Britton: Chronic Detective: Episode Two: Time of Death
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SynopsisThe second instalment — A Victorian private detective, Veronica Britton specialises in tricky situations that occur in time as well as space. Working alongside her young apprentice, the brilliant time-sensitive...
Veronica Britton: Chronic Detective: Episode Three: The Last Londoner
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SynopsisThe third instalment — A Victorian private detective, Veronica Britton specialises in tricky situations that occur in time as well as space. Working alongside her young apprentice, the brilliant time-sensitive...
Veronica Britton: Chronic Detective: Episode One: A Wounded City
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SynopsisThe first instalment — A Victorian private detective, Veronica Britton specialises in tricky situations that occur in time as well as space. Working alongside her young apprentice, the brilliant time-sensitive...
Veronica Britton: Chronic Detective: Episode Four: An Everlasting Cold
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SynopsisThe fourth and final instalment — A Victorian private detective, Veronica Britton specialises in tricky situations that occur in time as well as space. Working alongside her young apprentice, the...
Vacation of a Lifetime
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Synopsis ‘This volume gathers poems from Brady’s sequence, Liberties, with many singular works published in journals or previously uncollected. It presents the first opportunity to survey the territory of her...
Urban Myths
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SynopsisUrban Myths collects a wide range of John Tranter’s best writing from a forty-year career together with a generous selection of recent poems. His work is noted for its technical...
Urban Flowers, Concrete Plains
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SynopsisUrban Flowers, Concrete Plains, Jerry Harp’s third volume of poems, takes up where his first book, Creature (Salt Publishing, 2003), left off. The Creature continues his sojourn in the world,...
Untitled Deeds
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SynopsisOver the past quarter of a century or so, Peter Robinson has gained a reputation for his lyric poetry, translations, and critical writings devoted to modern and contemporary verse. Untitled...
Unsung
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Synopsis “Sculpture is a part of the space around it.” This statement by Katarzyna Kobro reflects Mengham’s sense of how he wants the poetic text to relate to the languages...
Unexpected Weather
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SynopsisAbi Curtis makes the familiar extraordinary, and the supernatural everyday. In poems about animals and clouds, scientists and circus performers, about love and bean-pods, about bruises and myths and the...
Under Balkan Light
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SynopsisWritten during and after the disintegration of Yugoslavia, this book presents a complex vision of the Balkans that flinches from neither brutality nor beauty but honours dignity and courage. The...
Uncertain Poetries
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SynopsisThis book is concerned with the complex and uncertain nature of twentieth century poetry and poetics. Dealing with such major figures as Lorca, Rilke, Pound, Stevens, Moore, Niedecker, Duncan and...
Unanimous Night
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SynopsisUnanimous Night is the second full-length collection from Tokyo-based poet Michael Brennan. Unanimous Night is an elegy affirming experience, the depth and interconnectedness of each singular moment. Moving from the...
Twenty-four Seven Blossom
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SynopsisNo gardener could ever grow an apple tree that blooms all year round, gifting both the flower arranger and the bee with twenty-four seven blossom. It’s an impossible dream, something...
Twelve Stories
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SynopsisThis is Paul Magrs’ first collection of short stories for twelve years. I’ve always written them, alongside my novels. These twelve pieces all began with a moment of observation –...
Trio
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SynopsisTrio is a 162-page omnibus collection of three books of poetry by leading Australian poet John Tranter published over a period of wide-ranging stylistic experiment in the 1970s.Red Movie, John...
Travelator
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SynopsisOne day, the poet found himself with a dying poem. So, out of sheer frustration, he took a pair of scissors to it and began to cut the poem up...
Tin Pan Arcadia
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SynopsisThis book contains by far the largest selection from the project of interconnected texts called Twentieth Century Blues that Robert Sheppard produced between 1989 and 2000. Other parts include Empty...
Third Class Superhero
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SynopsisMoisture Man, the hero of “Third Class Superhero”, is tired of watching his former classmates kick ass and claim their secret hideouts while he struggles to maintain his good-guy accreditation....
Theatre
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Synopsis‘Alison Croggon's bold new collection, Theatre, uses a range of narratives, fables, monologues and compressed lyrics to examine female identity and the idea of divine experience. Stepping confidently between different...
The Word for Sorrow
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SynopsisWorking on Ovid’s extraordinary but often much-neglected exile poetry with an old second-hand Latin dictionary one stormy spring morning, Josephine Balmer noticed a school-boy’s faded name inked on its fly-leaf...
The Weeds
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SynopsisThe Weeds is a book of deserts, exiles, friendships, loves, militaristic hallucinations, and weeds. The poems, prose pieces, and collaborations that make up the collection ask questions (“Is this the...
The Wayward
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SynopsisThe Wayward is an exploration into virtual life and theory. It uses tools from codework to traditional genre; much of its work is the result of programming intended to create...
The Visionary and Other Poems
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SynopsisEmily Brontë’s poetry was published under the male pseudonym of Ellis Bell, in order to avoid the prejudice against women writers. This new selection gathers poems from her first collection...
The Unhaunting
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SynopsisThe unhaunting is Taylor’s first collection of poems since his Collected poems was published by Salt in 2004, and ranges widely, in geography, mood, thematic preoccupations and style. The book’s...
The Tempest Prognosticator
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SynopsisIn The Tempest Prognosticator leeches warn of storms, whales blunder up the Thames, beetles tap out their courtship rituals, and women fall for deft cocktail makers and melancholy apes. With...
The Solex Brothers (Redux)
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SynopsisLike a toboggan of wolves who have eaten their driver, The Solex Brothers rushes blindly through the forest, drawing on the tropes and archetypes of folk tales, parables, political manifestos,...
The Siege of the Body and a Brief Respite
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SynopsisThis is Anthony Caleshu’s first book of poems. Divided into five sections, themes range from the erotic to the religious in poems which are as inventive for their images as...
The Ship
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SynopsisJohn Hartley Williams may well contain several poets, all of them jostling for expression. These would include his younger self and many of his aliases, the lover, the satirist, the...
The Sense Record
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Synopsis‘The Sense Record breaks every rule. Rather than being spare and fragmentary, Moxley’s work is lush with modifiers, full sentences, and subordinate clauses. Rather than shun the first person singular...
The Searching Glance
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Synopsis‘The Searching Glance’ is the long-awaited second collection from one of Scotland’s leading short story writers. The worlds inhabited by the characters in these stories are diverse – a hill...
The Scent of Cinnamon
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SynopsisThese prize-winning stories deal with life, love, loneliness, delusion, misunderstanding, death. An office worker wakes to find his body invaded by a mysterious parasite. A desperate woman seeks escape through...
The Salt Companion to Richard Berengarten
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SynopsisThis book, which accompanies the volumes published in the Salt Selected Writings series, guides readers through the many-faceted poetic output of Richard Berengarten (formerly Burns). Berengarten has been a crucial...
The Salt Companion to Peter Robinson
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SynopsisWith eight superb collections of poems as well as a Carcanet Selected, editor of the important Cambridge school journal Perfect Bound in the 1970s, author of three monographs on twentieth...
The Salt Companion to John Matthias
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SynopsisThe years 1995-2010 were particularly fertile for John Matthias. In that time, he published five critically acclaimed books of poetry, two pamphlets, two collaborations (a translation and an anthology); and...
The Salt Companion to Jim Barnes
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Synopsis“The one right word,” as he writes in ‘The Poet’s Paradise,’ has long been a Jim Barnes desideratum. Across an illustrious literary career that has produced nine volumes of verse...
The Salt Companion to Harold Bloom
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SynopsisThe Salt Companion to Harold Bloom is a major event in literary criticism. Edited by Graham Allen (University College Cork) and Roy Sellars (University of Southern Denmark, Kolding), the collection...
The Roads
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SynopsisAt the heart of David Kennedy’s new collection is a sequence of elegies: for the poet’s father, poets Jack Beeching, Ric Caddel and Kenneth Koch, the actor Anton Walbrook and...
The Reluctant Marquess
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SynopsisA country-bred girl, Charity Barlow always intended to marry for love like her parents. She suddenly finds herself married to a marquess, her new husband an aloof stranger determined to...
The Rain Diaries
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SynopsisThe Rain Diaries is a book you’ll want to hold on to, accessible without being easy. It’s poetry that makes you think and feel. Words without the blinkers. At times,...
The President of Earth
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Synopsis The President of Earth gathers the best and most exciting of David Kennedy’s poetry from the mid-1980s onwards. Ranging from graceful, evocative lyrics and mysterious dream-like narratives through alert...
The Pharmacist
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SynopsisThe Pharmacist — a coming of age tale about love and chemistry“The Pharmacist is a rare thing of perfection: a contemporary novella that reads like both a European classic and...
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