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A Lost Expression
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SynopsisThis is Luke Kennard’s fourth collection of poetry and departs from his previous work in its scope and outlook. The prose poems and dramatic monologues run deeper and, the verse...
Dust Sheet
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SynopsisWhisked away like an illusionist's cape or shaken out in the street, Dust Sheet throws off a cloud in which the world is made strange.Here, the everyday is perpetually on...
The Museum of Atheism
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SynopsisIt is Christmas Eve in a mountainous, isolated prison community, the day of the baby beauty pageant. Ava is the star attraction. She's six years old. Ava’s older brother Jonny...
Milk Fever
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SynopsisMilk Fever is a prize-winning first collection from a new voice in contemporary British poetry. The poet’s former career as a television scriptwriter for young adults is evident in the...
Antler
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SynopsisEric Gregory Award WinnerThe poems in Antler stalk their quarry over difficult ground. Prehistoric landscapes blend with genuine and imaginary anthropology; the real world becomes distorted through the dark mirrors...
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...
Sins of the Leopard
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SynopsisShortlisted for the Dylan Thomas PrizeShortlisted for the Michael Murphy Memorial PrizeThis remarkable debut sees tales of treachery, guilt and love play out against the whole canvas of history. Empires...
A Girl’s Arm
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SynopsisA Girl’s Arm is a collection of stories homing in on the pressure points in the lives of its characters. Although a mixed bag from a variety of backgrounds –...
Swarming
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SynopsisSwarming is a waspish debut of strange voices and unsettling moments which jostle at the border of individual and collective experience: a holy fool lurks uneasily in an abattoir; a...
Sweet Home
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SynopsisA bereaved mother borrows her next door neighbor’s baby. An outsider builds a gingerbread house at the edge of an English village. A woman is seduced into buying special-offer babies...
I Am a Magenta Stick
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SynopsisStaring at 8MM bar in Berlin, this collection wonders what it’s like to spend your entire life on the M62. Playful, risqué and plain funny, these poems always tackle the...
The Fool and the Physician
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SynopsisExploding with Carnivalesque and antic energy, The Fool and the Physician shows the formal range and wit of Andy Brown’s poetry, from traditional lyric forms such as pantoums, sonnets and...
The Glass Delusion
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SynopsisThe Glass Delusion draws on the power of animals, the strangeness of home and the mysteries of the future. Blending the mythic and the domestic, it is a book haunted...
Drawing in Ash
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SynopsisDrawing in Ash, is prize-winning poet Will Stone’s second collection from Salt. These compelling poems are divided into three parts, dealing with subjects such as war and genocide, and the...
The Angel of Salonika
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SynopsisThe Angel of Salonika is a haunting, multi-layered book about place, language and remembrance, and the way they make us who we are. Winner of the Crashaw Prize, it is...
The Dreamers
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SynopsisWhen Jennifer moves to a remote Welsh cottage, she falls in love with the solitude and the beautiful landscape. Back in the Victorian age, Arianwen lives a lonely and repressive...
The City with Horns
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Synopsis“Every artist paints what he is”, said Jackson Pollock, the iconic figure of the American Abstract Expressionist movement. His tumultuous life and his revolutionary vision provide the storyline for the...
House with a Dark Sky Roof
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SynopsisHouse with a Dark Sky Roof stands nearly dead-center between the traditional and experimental schools of the 20th century. Unlike so much 21st century poetry by younger Americans that might...
Refugee
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SynopsisFor several years, Nicholls worked as a volunteer writing mentor for members of the Write to Life group at Freedom from Torture. She tried to help people to find meaning...
Bound to Love
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SynopsisJake Forrester, a controlled, self-reliant security expert scarred by his father’s murder, is pursuing his goal of an independent life, relying on himself and logic, until he’s forced to accept...
A Man Walks into a Kitchen
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SynopsisIn mid-60s Belfast, Eddie Francey is a young comedian trying to get a break. He wonders if he has what it takes, but he has responsibilities: a wife and young...
Aly’s Luck
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SynopsisIn Aly’s Luck, Aly Krebbs is in trouble … again. Alone on the brutal world of T’ing, she’s forced to team-up with a luckless thief and a hungry shape-changer in...
Storm’s Heart
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SynopsisA perfect summer, sun lounger read or luxurious, fantasy escape in darker times. Storm’s Heart is a sexy, sophisticated romance with a dark, brooding centre. When Greek lawyer Andreas Lazarides...
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...
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 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...
The Lady Soldier
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Synopsis1812. Spain. Jem Riseley, brave, skilled and daring, the perfect soldier in Wellington’s Army except she is a gently-born lady. A battlefield promotion provides an escape from a sadistic Major,...
The Bridle
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SynopsisThe Bridle is concerned with the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of the human condition. Childhood, family, memory, myth – even the arguments and silences between lovers –...
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...
Hikikomori
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SynopsisHikikomori is told as two stories, that play out alongside one another.Jared’s story is first.Jared is a Hikikomori (Japanese meaning 'pulled away') and lives in self-confinement, ever since Sarah died....
Nanny Behaving Badly
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SynopsisMaddie Adams doesn’t mean to make the worst impression possible with her new boss. Nor does she intend to work as his temp Christmas nanny—especially when Lyle Sutherland inspires spicy...
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...
Claytown
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SynopsisJames Goodman’s evocative first collection is warm and inventive, dramatic and ethically-charged, picking its way through the clay country of mid-Cornwall as it tackles the ecological pressures on the natural...
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...
Outside
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SynopsisOutside is the second full-length collection from the prize-winning poet David McCooey. Outside takes the most basic of categories – day and night, inside and outside – and makes them...
Scandal at the Farmhouse
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SynopsisA truly Victorian romance between an aristocrat’s daughter and a working class hero. Desperate to escape an unwanted engagement to the wrong man, Clara begs newcomer Ned for ‘a kiss...
Holding the Hands of Angels
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SynopsisIn Holding the Hands of Angels, Brian Moses recollects his childhood in the 1950s and 60s. A childhood straight out of The Dangerous Book for Boys’, and very different to...
Citizen Cain
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SynopsisIn Benjamin Friedlander’s newest poems the lyric I is both abject and plural. A cacophony of rhetorically enfranchised voices, fused in the very crash of discourse that grinds their speech...
Savage Sun
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SynopsisCan interracial love survive the old savage west?Life in a lawless town is hard for a young lady like Jamie Phillips. She came to the Sierra Nevada foothills to help...
Rubber Orchestras
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SynopsisTaking its name from a poem by American surrealist Ted Joans, Rubber Orchestras is an energetic, sensuous and intriguing collection of poems, written over a period of four years with...
I Sing of Bricks
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SynopsisAngela Topping’s poems are full of joy, tempered by sadness and always unflinchingly honest. She writes in a range of voices, always concentrating on the human experience, sometimes through unusual...
Next Stop: Sejer Island
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SynopsisNext Stop: Sejer Island is a collection of short stories, pieces of lives and incidents assembled from a small Danish island community. Every inhabitant plays a role, and bonding is...
The Fantasy Kid
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SynopsisThe Fantasy Kid collects together Rupert Loydell's poems for children, teenagers and the young-at-heart, all of which have been test-driven by the author at schools, festivals, libraries and readings around...
London Bridge
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SynopsisLondon Bridge is Simon Smith’s fourth collection of poetry, and his third with Salt. New to this accessible book is the way each poem can stand-alone or feature as part...
Nitrate
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SynopsisCellulose nitrate was introduced in 1889, and used until the 1950s as the – frighteningly flammable – basis of film stock. Simon Perril’s new book of poems is a meditation...
Salt Modern Poets: Barraclough, Kennard, McCabe
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SynopsisThe first volume in the “Salt Modern Poets” series. This volume collects together three outstanding new talents who have recently emerged on the contemporary British poetry scene. Simon Barraclough, Luke...
Last Farmer
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SynopsisThe division between country and city is fading fast and these poems document the ragged edge of our contemporary ideas of the rural and the sublime. Ever since the initial...
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,...
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