Author: Anselm Hollo
Publisher: Salt Publishing
Keywords: poets, modern, salt, river, braided
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 2005-03-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1844711099
ISBN-13: 9781844711093

Braided River is a selection from forty years of published poems plus some of my most recent, uncollected work. It describes a lifetime’s endeavours to write poems that reflect a thinking and feeling person’s twentieth century existence in Europe and America - in love and sorrow, and even, still, some hope for the future of the world at large.

Author: Melanie Challenger
Publisher: Salt Publishing
Keywords: poets, modern, salt, galatea
Number of Pages: 76
Published: 2006-10-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1844712907
ISBN-13: 9781844712908

In Galatea, her first collection, Challenger casts a poet’s sensitive eye across the hours of a tumultuous century to create startling poems whose voice - resolute, compassionate, original - both celebrates and mourns the tensions of human nature. Drawing her themes from the Pygmalion myth, Challenger portrays her subjects in trembling poise between action and inaction, consummation and defeat.

Author: Drew Milne
Publisher: Salt Publishing
Keywords: poets, modern, salt, figure
Number of Pages: 124
Published: 2003-09-22
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1844710297
ISBN-13: 9781844710294

Hamlet famously found himself ill at the numbers of poetry. These poems are no less ill at ease with the metrical or geometrical principles which constrain their movements, though freedom from maths is hard won. While Milne’s earlier poems have a reputation for opacity, the aphoristic prose poems which make up ’Aftermaths’, the book’s concluding afterword, offer a blisteringly explicit account of the book’s arguments. Part of the resulting excitement of this new poetic book-form is the tension between the parts that make up the whole. Go Figure’s internal re

Author: Peter Barry
Publisher: Salt Publishing
Keywords: poetry, contemporary, studies, salt, wars
Number of Pages: 276
Published: 2006-09-01
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 1844712478
ISBN-13: 9781844712472

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 events have long been circulated, but this is the first detailed account of what happened, based on archival sources, and told by a writer who knew many of those involved.

Author: Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
Publisher: Salt Publishing
Keywords: earthworks, blood
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 2007-11-15
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1844712664
ISBN-13: 9781844712663

This volume testifies to the need to protect the remarkable ruins of the Indigenous North American city of Blood Run and the sacred remains she guards there in mounded tombs. The persona poems herein emanate its character embraced in architectural accomplishment designed in accordance with the sun and moon and multitudes of stars above.

Author: Bruce Andrew
Publisher: Salt Publishing
Keywords: poets, modern, salt, heartbeat, designated
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2006-03-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1844710688
ISBN-13: 9781844710683

In this selection of shorter lyric poems, celebrated Language poet Bruce Andrews offers his charismatic blend of satire, wit and jouissance, creating a dizzying picture of modern America. In these poems Andrews explores a more intimate and domestic register, further reminding us of the astonishing range of this contemporary master.

Author: Lisa Jarnot
Publisher: Salt Publishing
Keywords: poets, modern, salt, fire, ring
Number of Pages: 108
Published: 2003-09-23
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1844710076
ISBN-13: 9781844710072

"Ring of Fire" is a book of experimental lyric poetry in the tradition of American Poetry beginning with Walt Whitman and continuing through the Beat Generation, the New York School, and contemporary Language Poetry. Jarnot’s work represents a synthesis of traditional modes of verse alongside more fragmented avant-garde writing practices. The poems in this collection resonate with homages to the metaphysical masters of the 17th Century while commenting on popular culture in the Western world.