Salt Publishing

Imagination VersesAuthor: Jennifer MoxleyPublisher: Salt PublishingPublication Date: Apr 15, 2003Number of Pages: 116 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1876857943ISBN-13: 9781876857943

Presents a collection that features an exploration of power, persecution and loss. This work shows the intense relationship between agency and structure in the modern world. It contains poetry that...

Featuring turbo-charged trees, double agent forests and leaves that perform magic, this is a wide-ranging collection of fun, lyrical and thought-provoking poems. Some have already appeared on...

This lively second collection from a young, much-travelled writer falls into two parts. 'Transit' includes poems of travel and transport, especially Japan, where Tobias Hill lived for two years...

The poems in "More Shadow Than Bird" are imagistic narratives of emotional situations that offer not the story of a life, but of the consciousness accompanying the life lived. This consciousness,...

Nature is an unavoidable force in these poems, providing space for meditations on our knowledge of self and other. How do our environments and pasts affect us? How did we become? These poems have...

This is an important literary debut: the sound of a new, unique, captivating voice. The journey Capildeo describes with such ferocity and such an ebullient, unexpected sense of fun is also emotional,...

Award-winning writer Nuala N? Chonch?ir uses sensual frankness and poetic language, to weave a spell around the reader in Nude. We find mercurial lovers and illicit affairs from Dublin to Paris,...

A book of and about literary anecdotes, On Leave presents passing observations concerning the anecdote in a modular prose that tracks the events of a year on leave. Its cast of characters includes...

In this extraordinary debut collection, David Hamilton revitalises and extends American pastoral writing with an uncanny ability to conjure memories of childhood and moments of spiritual and physical...

Anhelas conocer a Jes?s de manera m?s ?ntima y descubrir la plenitud de qui?n eres en ?l? Muchos de nosotros atravesamos la vida sin experimentar completamente la riqueza de qui?n es Jes?s y la...

Periplum and other poems brings together Peter Gizzi's celebrated and influential first book, out of print for nearly a decade, with 60 pages of early and uncollected work, including the long poem...

"Pitch" is a skeptical monument, tracking an encounter with an edge we might pitch over, with the pitch dark of our time, with our lurching desires to do the necessary work of seeing and...

This unique collection features chefs on poetry and poets on food. Contributors include top UK poets, chefs and food writers. Designed to celebrate the theme of 'food', as part of 'National Poetry...

Poetry Wars describes the battle at the National Poetry Society during the 1970s between radicals and conservatives, which had lasting effects on British poetry. Myths and anecdotes about these...

Radio Nostalgia examines the borders of war, social exile, and manufactured liberty expressed through corporate media. The poet's world is mediated through news anchors, oracles and heralds, where...

"Reasons for Writing Poetry" is the first collection of verse to appear in English from the internationally acclaimed Peruvian poet Eduardo Chirinos. The poems, carefully chosen for this edition by...

From the depths of longing to the London Bombings "Recital" offers a poet's journey looking at our world over the space of a year. Taking the lunar cycle as its central theme, Siddique's book surveys...

"In the late summer of 1990 I fell into depression. By the time the Gulf War broke out, in the winter of 1991, I was well on my way to a breakdown. By the summer, with the help of my buddy Ed Orr, I...

"The sense of the body flowing from an old comfortable posture / to a new exciting yet strange position" is the animating force in Nathan Hoks' dazzling first collection of poems. His fine gradations...

The Salt Book of Younger Poets showcases a new generation of British poets born since the mid-80s. Many of these poets have used new technologies such as blogs, social networking and webzines to...

David Gaffney's compact, surreal tales are filled with poignancy and wit. Each story goes off like a tiny depth charge in the mind, leaving you with the trace memory of some new urban myth - comic,...

Schedule of Unrest selects from John Wilkinson's collections of poetry published from 1974 to 2008. A growing readership is seeking ways into an impassioned and beautiful body of writing. The...

'Short Circuit' is a unique and indispensable guide to writing the short story. A collection of 24 specially commissioned essays from experienced writers and successful teachers of the short form,...

Sills gathers together poems from four of O'Brien's early books and combines them with later work, forming a selection from 1960-1999. O'Brien writes, "The poems dance their dance of stillness and...

This book is designed to introduce Simon Armitage to those studying him at school and university, and is built around detailed and accessible readings of his most important poems. It contains the...

Shortlisted for the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize This remarkable debut sees tales of treachery, guilt and love play out against the whole canvas of history. Empires rise and fall; the beasts of...

"Some Bright Elegance" is about the changes that are a part of life in the 21st Century. In the book this is explored in relation to the search for meaning and consolation in the wake of bereavement,...

Shot through with wit and aching emotional poignancy, these stories tell of how we attempt to confront the things life throws in our path - often when we least expect them, and in places where we...

A surge into twenty-first century poetry and poetics, a book of passionate poetic energies and odic verve, "Surge" is the provocative, open-ended ending to DuPlessis's twenty-six year long poem...