Salt Publishing

The Wildflowers of Baltimore is a collection of stories about young men on desperate searches both physical-for a missing child in the woods, for a loved one at the end of the world--and...

From Ovid's Rome to the blood-soaked trenches of Gallipoli, "The Word for Sorrow", brings new resonance to ancient grief. Its powerful and spellbinding poems give voice to the universal suffering of...

Luis Garc?a Montero (Granada, 1958) is one of the most read and influential Spanish writers today. He is an essayist, fiction writer, journalist, professor of Spanish Literature at the University of...

The poems in "Then spree" take language for a ride bare-backed through fringe-worlds: through the backwoods of forgotten histories to the watery edges of landmasses, from the sunken, frayed psyche of...

These are poems which welcome distraction and which seem to have a lasting interest in registering and reproducing a sense of the uncanny. The strategies adopted veer between lyric mannerism and...

Space heater. Writing gathers around the pigeons. This line leads to Uranus. Nun census. Silver fork upon a chippd blue plate. I saw sleeping bag, pillows in the Buick's back. The companionship of...

In To World, poems interrogate everything: nature, society, and thought itself, with no prejudice or even principle. In other words, they don't follow any rule, tradition, or discipline; they are...

This is a terse, tough d?but by an award-winning American poet with punch in the language. What you find here is the grist of life - death, love, sex, departure - honed by a voice obsessed with the...

A charismatic stranger comes into the life of a young mother fearing for her children in a polluted and changing world. He seems to offer a special kind of power... A haunting and timely novel about...

Twisted, knotted, struck by events and emotions at our historical moment, these Drafts register and produce torques-exaltation and tension, torsion and force, in their symphonic and bantering surges...

This is a eclectic and exciting gathering of poetry and prose-poems that try to understand what poetry is and who or what it might be for. It is also about what writers might want or demand from...

She loved ... and killed ... both men and women. She was utterly beautiful and utterly mad. This is a tale of passionate horror ... a breath-taking venture into abnormal psychology ... a story which...

"Under Albany is the shadow movement of Ron Silliman's epic of everyday life, The Alphabet. Silliman provides a set of extended, vividly etched, mostly autobiographical, meditations on the background...

Long-listed for the 2016 Edge Hill Short Story PrizeWhat if, in a parallel universe, you made a different choice of lover? What if you've spent your whole life with entirely the wrong idea about your...

A pre-war amateur cycling career is cut short by call-up. Trained as a sniper, the man, whose name we never know for sure, embarks for war-torn Europe. Undecided how to resume his life at the war's...

This passionate new book gathers together for the first time many of Vanessa Gebbie's award-winning stories. Described by Maggie Gee as 'a prodigiously gifted new writer', she is a natural...

Words Need Love Too represents, perhaps Kamau Brathwaite's most concentrated effort at fashioning a new literary tradition out of the fragmented pieces/rhythms/nation languages that form the New...

Tobias Hill's first full-length collection, Year of the Dog, won an Eric Gregory award in 1995. Dominated by images and narratives from Hill's stay in Japan, as well as other tavel poems, the book...

Jonty Tiplady grew up in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, moving to London, Paris, then Brighton, where he received a PhD on Jacques Derrida. He has published 8 chapbooks of poetry, including 'Zam Bonk...