save salt
I guess most people who read santiago's dead wasp will have seen this already. For anyone else here's the justification you need to go out and spend money on poetry this bank holiday weekend. I know I will. Without the Salt edition of Caroline Bergvall's Fig I might have taken longer tracking down innovative writing practices. I also have Allen Fisher's Leans from Salt. I find their list is currently more interesting as regards contemporary writing than Bloodaxe, Carcanet, Faber and Penguin taken together.
Saving Salt Publishing: Just One Book
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
As many of you will know, Jen and I have been struggling to keep Salt moving since June last year when the economic downturn began to affect our press. Our three year funding ends this year: we've £4,000 due from Arts Council England in a final payment, but cannot apply through Grants for the Arts for further funding for Salt's operations. Spring sales were down nearly 80% on the previous year, and despite April's much improved trading, the past twelve months has left us with a budget deficit of over £55,000. It's proving to be a very big hole and we're having to take some drastic measures to save our business. Here's how you can help us to save Salt and all our work with hundreds of authors around the world.
JUST ONE BOOK
1. Please buy just one book, right now. We don't mind from where, you can buy it from us or from Amazon, your local shop or megastore, online or offline. If you buy just one book now, you'll help to save Salt. Timing is absolutely everything here. We need cash now to stay afloat. If you love literature, help keep it alive. All it takes is just one book sale. Go to our online store and help us keep going.
UK and International
http://www.saltpublishing.com/shop/index.php
USA
http://www.saltpublishing.com/shop-us/index.php
2. Share this note on your Facebook or MySpace profile. Tell your friends. If we can spread the word about our cash crisis, we can hopefully find more sales and save our literary publishing. Remember it's just one book, that's all it takes to save us. Please do it now.
With my best wishes to everyone
Chris Hamilton-Emery
Director
Salt Publishing
http://www.saltpublishing.com
Now being cheeky, and not wanting to influence you in any way, I've had a quick look through current titles and I can thoroughly recommend the following poets: Tim Atkins (Folklore), Caroline Bergvall (Fig), Sean Bonney (Blade Pitch Control Unit), Allen Fisher (Gravity and Leans), Alan Halsey (Not Everything Remotely), Tony Lopez (Covers and False Memory), Geraldine Monk (Ghost & Other Sonnets and Selected Poems), and Robert Sheppard (Complete Twentieth Century Blues and Tin Pan Arcadia). But there's a lot more there including Steven Waling's Travelator, and Eleanor Rees' Andraste's Hair. I suggest you have a look and make up your own mind. Many of these people have read at one or more of the evenings run by The Other Room, Openned, and the Bolton Octagon Poetry & Prose readings.
Saving Salt Publishing: Just One Book
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
As many of you will know, Jen and I have been struggling to keep Salt moving since June last year when the economic downturn began to affect our press. Our three year funding ends this year: we've £4,000 due from Arts Council England in a final payment, but cannot apply through Grants for the Arts for further funding for Salt's operations. Spring sales were down nearly 80% on the previous year, and despite April's much improved trading, the past twelve months has left us with a budget deficit of over £55,000. It's proving to be a very big hole and we're having to take some drastic measures to save our business. Here's how you can help us to save Salt and all our work with hundreds of authors around the world.
JUST ONE BOOK
1. Please buy just one book, right now. We don't mind from where, you can buy it from us or from Amazon, your local shop or megastore, online or offline. If you buy just one book now, you'll help to save Salt. Timing is absolutely everything here. We need cash now to stay afloat. If you love literature, help keep it alive. All it takes is just one book sale. Go to our online store and help us keep going.
UK and International
http://www.saltpublishing.com/shop/index.php
USA
http://www.saltpublishing.com/shop-us/index.php
2. Share this note on your Facebook or MySpace profile. Tell your friends. If we can spread the word about our cash crisis, we can hopefully find more sales and save our literary publishing. Remember it's just one book, that's all it takes to save us. Please do it now.
With my best wishes to everyone
Chris Hamilton-Emery
Director
Salt Publishing
http://www.saltpublishing.com
Now being cheeky, and not wanting to influence you in any way, I've had a quick look through current titles and I can thoroughly recommend the following poets: Tim Atkins (Folklore), Caroline Bergvall (Fig), Sean Bonney (Blade Pitch Control Unit), Allen Fisher (Gravity and Leans), Alan Halsey (Not Everything Remotely), Tony Lopez (Covers and False Memory), Geraldine Monk (Ghost & Other Sonnets and Selected Poems), and Robert Sheppard (Complete Twentieth Century Blues and Tin Pan Arcadia). But there's a lot more there including Steven Waling's Travelator, and Eleanor Rees' Andraste's Hair. I suggest you have a look and make up your own mind. Many of these people have read at one or more of the evenings run by The Other Room, Openned, and the Bolton Octagon Poetry & Prose readings.
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