ride the word! come hear Ms B read her poems
By the way, it is going to be even more exciting than you think: in a surprise innovation set to rock the poetry world, I am also going to read one of Julia Bird’s poems. And she is going to read one...
View Articlethree in one for sixty at the Wheatsheaf
Ernest Hilbert – you know, Ernest Hilbert who edits the Contemporary Poetry Review, runs the anarchic poetry newsletter and podcast E-Verse Radio, and even manages to bring a frisson of derring-do...
View Articlebuy Salt
Wondering what to read this summer? There’s a 20% discount at the Salt shop… and the selection above, while I can vouch for most of it personally, is but a drop in the ocean. I haven’t even given you...
View Articlewhere to find me
1. At the Lemon Monkey Café in Stoke Newington High St, tomorrow night. Come at 6.30 to get drinks in, reading starts at 7. £3 in a hat, please. And Lemon Monkey does great food. We’ve got a...
View ArticleOscar & Henry on Amazon
(strange as that sounds…) Look! You can pre-order it! “For Henry, having two countries meant staged risk, and privacy. For Oscar, having the world meant everything bet on the one toss. In a 20′s...
View Articletonight only! Oscar ‘ n’ Ernest in N16
Well it has arrived: our big day. As months of dogged research by our team of huskies have utterly failed to turn up any little pebble of evidence that Oscar was ever anywhere in the vicinity of Stoke...
View ArticleMe and the Dead: a little reminder
It’s now in paperback! The reduced price on the Salt Publishing website is £7.99 or $12.99. Imagine its lovely, bendy cover between your hands… In Salt news, there is some cracking stuff coming up....
View Articleplaces you can buy Me and the Dead
a feature on debut poetry collections on the Foyles website! from Salt – if you buy it in time you’ll even get a free raffle ticket! (Prize: the next 20 Salt titles as they come out. OMG.) I love...
View ArticleStress Fractures: coming soon
This trail of names is a secret glimpse into the life of a editor. Apparently these scraps of paper were used to decide the running order of essays in a book – a book of essays, as it happens, called...
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