Salena Godden
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Salena Godden is a British
poet, performer and writer living in North London. Her stories and poetry have appeared in Dazed & Confused
, Salzburg Review, Le Gun, Penguin's IC3, Canongate's Fire People, Serpents Tail's Croatian Nights and Hodder & Stoughton's Oral. Godden records and performs in the ska-punk-breakbeat duo, SaltPeter, with Peter Coyte. SaltPeter's album
, Hunger's The Best Sauce was listed in The Independent on Sunday
as one of the outstanding albums of 2007. She will also be partaking in the Bush Theatre
's 2011 project Sixty Six where he has written a piece based upon a chapter of the King James Bible
Salena Godden's latest collection 'Under The Pier' was published by hip-indie imprint Nasty Little Press in 2011. Most recently her work appears in Shortfire Press, The Dark Times, Illustrated Ape Magazine, Trespass Magazine, Paraphilia, Rising, Teller Magazine, The Mechanics Institute Review published by Birkbeck University and Picador's Punk Fiction. Her poetry featured in the three latest anthologies from Tangerine Press titled Dwang, hand-bound bespoke collections. Salena Godden hosts and produces The Book Club Boutique - Soho's hippest literary salon - purveyors of their own unique brand of Books, Booze and Boogie-Woogie. Salena is the lyricist / lead singer of The Book Club Boutique Band and also underground ska-break duo SaltPeter. She features regularly on BBC's 'The Verb' and 'Bespoken Word' and is a poet in residence on Radio 4's 'Saturday Live'. This summer her narrative play 'A Valentine At Waterloo' will be aired and podcast as part of the BBC’s 'Verse Illustrated' series. And in the Autumn she will be partaking in the Bush Theatre's 2011 project Sixty Six where she has written a piece based upon a chapter of the King James Bible. Finally, Salena facilitates workshops for First Story - a charity created by author William Fiennes - that aims to foster and nurture literacy and creative writing in secondary schools.
BBC RADIO 4 VERSE ILLUSTRATED: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0135rww
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poet, performer and writer living in North London. Her stories and poetry have appeared in Dazed & Confused
Dazed & Confused (magazine)
Dazed & Confused is a British style magazine, that was set up in 1992 and published monthly. Its founding editors were Jefferson Hack and Rankin...
, Salzburg Review, Le Gun, Penguin's IC3, Canongate's Fire People, Serpents Tail's Croatian Nights and Hodder & Stoughton's Oral. Godden records and performs in the ska-punk-breakbeat duo, SaltPeter, with Peter Coyte. SaltPeter's album
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...
, Hunger's The Best Sauce was listed in The Independent on Sunday
The Independent
The Independent is a British national morning newspaper published in London by Independent Print Limited, owned by Alexander Lebedev since 2010. It is nicknamed the Indy, while the Sunday edition, The Independent on Sunday, is the Sindy. Launched in 1986, it is one of the youngest UK national daily...
as one of the outstanding albums of 2007. She will also be partaking in the Bush Theatre
Bush Theatre
The Bush Theatre is based in Shepherd's Bush, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. It was established in 1972 above The Bush public house by Brian McDermott, and has since become one of the most celebrated new writing theatres in the world. An intimate venue renowned for its close-up...
's 2011 project Sixty Six where he has written a piece based upon a chapter of the King James Bible
Salena Godden's latest collection 'Under The Pier' was published by hip-indie imprint Nasty Little Press in 2011. Most recently her work appears in Shortfire Press, The Dark Times, Illustrated Ape Magazine, Trespass Magazine, Paraphilia, Rising, Teller Magazine, The Mechanics Institute Review published by Birkbeck University and Picador's Punk Fiction. Her poetry featured in the three latest anthologies from Tangerine Press titled Dwang, hand-bound bespoke collections. Salena Godden hosts and produces The Book Club Boutique - Soho's hippest literary salon - purveyors of their own unique brand of Books, Booze and Boogie-Woogie. Salena is the lyricist / lead singer of The Book Club Boutique Band and also underground ska-break duo SaltPeter. She features regularly on BBC's 'The Verb' and 'Bespoken Word' and is a poet in residence on Radio 4's 'Saturday Live'. This summer her narrative play 'A Valentine At Waterloo' will be aired and podcast as part of the BBC’s 'Verse Illustrated' series. And in the Autumn she will be partaking in the Bush Theatre's 2011 project Sixty Six where she has written a piece based upon a chapter of the King James Bible. Finally, Salena facilitates workshops for First Story - a charity created by author William Fiennes - that aims to foster and nurture literacy and creative writing in secondary schools.
External links
BBC RADIO 4 SATURDAY LIVE: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qgj4BBC RADIO 4 VERSE ILLUSTRATED: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0135rww