Salt Publishing
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Salt Publishing is an independent publisher whose origins date back to 1990 when poet John Kinsella launched Salt Magazine in Western Australia
. The journal rapidly developed an international reputation as a leading publisher of new poetry and poetics. Over the next decade, Kinsella, together with Tracy Ryan
, went on to develop Folio(Salt), publishing and co-publishing books and chapbooks focused on a pluralist vision of contemporary poetry which extended across national boundaries and a wide range of poetic practices.
formed a partnership to develop Salt Publishing. When Newman left in 2002 and the original partnership was dissolved, Jen Hamilton-Emery, a senior manager in the National Health Service, joined Chris Hamilton-Emery to take over the ownership of Salt, relaunching the business in the UK. Since that time Salt has rapidly expanded its size and the range of its publishing programme. In November 2004, Salt was incorporated in the UK and Linda Bennett
(ex-Waterstone's
) joined as a Director. In July 2005 John Skelton
joined as a Director.
Chris Hamilton-Emery was given an editor's award for excellence in literature in the 2006 American Book Awards.
In 2007 Salt was shortlisted for an innovation award in the inaugural UK Independent Publishing Awards, though Faber won the category. In 2008 Salt was shortlisted again for the 2008 Nielsen Innovation of the Year award, and won it.
From its offices in Bloomsbury
, London
and Cromer
on the north Norfolk coast, Salt now publishes around 100 books a year, covering poetry, drama, fiction, biography, literary criticism and scholarly works by authors from the US, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the Caribbean and mainland Europe. The press has developed several strands of poetry publishing some associated with the British Poetry Revival
and the Language poets
. A Native American writing series, Earthworks edited by Janet McAdams
, began in 2005, winning the business the 2006 Publisher of the Year award from the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers. The indigenous writing series has since been expanded and Víctor Rodríguez Núñez
, Katherine Hedeen and Gordon Henry, Jr have joined the editorial team operating in Gambier, Ohio. A series of short stories was launched in 2007, as was the Salt Companions series of author-specific companions. The press has now moved in to fiction publishing and launched a new children's list: Salt Kids, in 2010.
The business is beginning to diversify and has recently appointed Ian Gregson
as the editor of a new Welsh list, operating out of Bangor and Roddy Lumsden
joined the team as Commissioning Editor for Poetry in 2010. The business also runs a number of free online magazines, Horizon Review edited by Katy Evans-Bush, and Salt Magazine edited by John Kinsella.
The list includes works by a British poets Tom Chivers
, Tobias Hill
, Jane Holland
, Sue Hubbard, John James (poet)
, Anthony Joseph
, Luke Kennard
, John Siddique
, Will Stone, John Wilkinson
, Mark Waldron and Tamar Yoseloff. Important titles by American poets Robert Archambeau
, Charles Bernstein
, Maxine Chernoff
, Rachel Blau DuPlessis
, Heid E. Erdrich, Aaron Fagan, Forrest Gander
, Peter Gizzi
, Diane Glancy
, Brian Henry
, Ethan Paquin
, Paul Hoover
, LeAnne Howe
, Kimberley Blaeser, Aaron McCollough
, James Reiss
, Carter Revard
, Ron Silliman
, Gerald Vizenor
and Susan Wheeler
, and new work by Australian authors Pam Brown
, Jill Jones (poet)
, Kate Lilley
, Peter Minter, Peter Rose
, Tom Shapcott and John Tranter
. A new children's list includes poets Philip Gross
, John Mole
, Andrew Fusek Peters, Angela Topping
among others.
Western Australia
Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...
. The journal rapidly developed an international reputation as a leading publisher of new poetry and poetics. Over the next decade, Kinsella, together with Tracy Ryan
Tracy Ryan
Tracy Ryan is an Australian poet and novelist. She has also worked as an editor, publisher, translator, and academic.-Life:Tracy Ryan was born in Western Australia, where she grew up as part of a large family...
, went on to develop Folio(Salt), publishing and co-publishing books and chapbooks focused on a pluralist vision of contemporary poetry which extended across national boundaries and a wide range of poetic practices.
Overview
In 1999 John Kinsella, Clive Newman and Chris Hamilton-EmeryChris Emery
Chris Emery also known as Chris Hamilton-Emery born in Manchester, England, on November 23, 1963 is a British poet and literary publisher.- Biography :...
formed a partnership to develop Salt Publishing. When Newman left in 2002 and the original partnership was dissolved, Jen Hamilton-Emery, a senior manager in the National Health Service, joined Chris Hamilton-Emery to take over the ownership of Salt, relaunching the business in the UK. Since that time Salt has rapidly expanded its size and the range of its publishing programme. In November 2004, Salt was incorporated in the UK and Linda Bennett
Linda Bennett
Linda Kristin Bennett OBE is an English-Icelandic clothing designer and entrepreneur, best known for setting up fashion retailer L.K.Bennett.-Early life:...
(ex-Waterstone's
Waterstone's
Waterstone's is a British book specialist established in 1982 by Tim Waterstone that employs around 4,500 staff throughout the United Kingdom and Europe....
) joined as a Director. In July 2005 John Skelton
John Skelton
John Skelton, also known as John Shelton , possibly born in Diss, Norfolk, was an English poet.-Education:...
joined as a Director.
Chris Hamilton-Emery was given an editor's award for excellence in literature in the 2006 American Book Awards.
In 2007 Salt was shortlisted for an innovation award in the inaugural UK Independent Publishing Awards, though Faber won the category. In 2008 Salt was shortlisted again for the 2008 Nielsen Innovation of the Year award, and won it.
From its offices in Bloomsbury
Bloomsbury
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, London
London
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and Cromer
Cromer
Cromer is a coastal town and civil parish in north Norfolk, England. The local government authority is North Norfolk District Council, whose headquarters is in Holt Road in the town. The town is situated 23 miles north of the county town, Norwich, and is 4 miles east of Sheringham...
on the north Norfolk coast, Salt now publishes around 100 books a year, covering poetry, drama, fiction, biography, literary criticism and scholarly works by authors from the US, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the Caribbean and mainland Europe. The press has developed several strands of poetry publishing some associated with the British Poetry Revival
British Poetry Revival
The British Poetry Revival is the general name given to a loose poetry movement in Britain that took place in the 1960s and 1970s. The revival was a modernist-inspired reaction to the Movement's more conservative approach to British poetry.-Beginnings:...
and the Language poets
Language poets
The Language poets are an avant garde group or tendency in United States poetry that emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s...
. A Native American writing series, Earthworks edited by Janet McAdams
Janet McAdams
Janet McAdams is an Alabama Creek/Scottish/Irish poet and the author of The Island of Lost Luggage which received an American Book Award in 2001 and the First Book Award for Poetry from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas in 1999...
, began in 2005, winning the business the 2006 Publisher of the Year award from the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers. The indigenous writing series has since been expanded and Víctor Rodríguez Núñez
Víctor Rodríguez Núñez
Víctor Rodríguez Núñez is a Cuban poet, journalist, literary critic and translator.In addition to Cuba, he has lived in Nicaragua, Colombia, and the United States, where he is currently an Associate Professor of Spanish at Kenyon College....
, Katherine Hedeen and Gordon Henry, Jr have joined the editorial team operating in Gambier, Ohio. A series of short stories was launched in 2007, as was the Salt Companions series of author-specific companions. The press has now moved in to fiction publishing and launched a new children's list: Salt Kids, in 2010.
The business is beginning to diversify and has recently appointed Ian Gregson
Ian Gregson
Ian Gregson is a disabled activist and author in British Columbia, Canada.He was born in St Helens, Lancashire, England on September 2, 1962. As a young boy his promising athletic career in track and field seemed to end on May 18, 1978 during his lunch hour at Ashton-in-Makerfield Grammar School ,...
as the editor of a new Welsh list, operating out of Bangor and Roddy Lumsden
Roddy Lumsden
Roddy Lumsden is a Scottish poet, who was born in St Andrews. He has published five collections of poetry, a number of chapbooks and a collection of trivia, as well as editing a generational anthology of British and Irish poets of the 1990s and 2000s, Identity Parade, among other...
joined the team as Commissioning Editor for Poetry in 2010. The business also runs a number of free online magazines, Horizon Review edited by Katy Evans-Bush, and Salt Magazine edited by John Kinsella.
The list includes works by a British poets Tom Chivers
Tom Chivers
Tom Chivers is a British poet, editor and live literature promoter.Born 1983 in South London, he was educated at Dulwich College and then at St Anne's College, Oxford University. He currently lives in East London....
, Tobias Hill
Tobias Hill
Tobias Hill is an award-winning British poet, essayist, writer of short stories and novelist.-Life:Tobias Hill was born in Kentish Town, in North London, to parents of German Jewish and English extraction: his maternal grandfather was the brother of Gottfried Bermann, confidant of Thomas Mann and,...
, Jane Holland
Jane Holland
Jane Holland is an award-winning English poet, performer and novelist whose poems have been widely published in magazines and broadcast on the radio. She won an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors for her poetry in 1996...
, Sue Hubbard, John James (poet)
John James (poet)
John James is a British poet.- Biography :John James was born 1939 in Cardiff and was educated at Saint Illtyd’s College there. He left the college in 1957 to read Philosophy and English Literature at the University of Bristol and later undertook postgraduate studies in American Literature at the...
, Anthony Joseph
Anthony Joseph
Anthony Joseph is a British poet, novelist, musician and lecturer.Joseph was born in Trinidad and was raised by his grandparents. He began writing as a young child and cites his main influences as the Calypso, surrealism, jazz, the spiritual Baptist church that his grandparents attended, and the...
, Luke Kennard
Luke Kennard
Luke Kennard is a British poet, playwright and academic born in 1982.His first prose-poems collection - The Solex Brothers was published by Stride, and won him an Eric Gregory Award in 2005...
, John Siddique
John Siddique
-Personal life:Siddique was born to an Indian Muslim father and an Irish Catholic mother, He has said in interviews that he regards his true countries of birth to be 'literature and language.' The family struggled with poverty from which the young Siddique sought refuge in the world of books...
, Will Stone, John Wilkinson
John Wilkinson (poet)
John Wilkinson is a contemporary English poet.From 1972 to 1975, he studied English at Jesus College, Cambridge, United Kingdom, where he founded, with Charlie Bulbeck and Charles Lambert, the Blue Room, a society devoted to the propagation of poetry and the other fine arts.His first publication,...
, Mark Waldron and Tamar Yoseloff. Important titles by American poets Robert Archambeau
Robert Archambeau
For the poet and critic, see Robert Archambeau Robert Archambeau is a Canadian ceramic artist. Born in Toledo, Ohio, United States in 1933, he immigrated to Canada in 1968. His work, heavily influenced by Japanese ceramics, has been exhibited internationally and is held in many major public and...
, Charles Bernstein
Charles Bernstein
Charles Bernstein is an American poet, theorist, editor, and literary scholar. Bernstein holds the Donald T. Regan Chair in the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is one of the most prominent members of the Language poets . In 2006 he was elected a Fellow of the American...
, Maxine Chernoff
Maxine Chernoff
Maxine Chernoff is an American novelist, writer, poet, academic and literary magazine editor. She was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, and attended the University of Illinois at Chicago....
, Rachel Blau DuPlessis
Rachel Blau DuPlessis
Rachel Blau DuPlessis an American poet and essayist, is known as a feminist critic and scholar with a special interest in modernist and contemporary poetry.-Life and work:...
, Heid E. Erdrich, Aaron Fagan, Forrest Gander
Forrest Gander
Forrest Gander is an American poet, essayist, novelist, critic, and translator.Born in the Mojave Desert, he was raised in Virginia where he attended The College of William and Mary, majoring in geology, a subject referenced frequently in both his poems and essays. He received an M.A...
, Peter Gizzi
Peter Gizzi
Peter Gizzi is an award-winning American poet and renowned editor of the American poet Jack Spicer. He attended Brown University, New York University and the State University of New York at Buffalo.-Life and career:...
, Diane Glancy
Diane Glancy
Diane Glancy was born in 1941 in Kansas City, Missouri. She is a Cherokee poet, author and playwright. Glancy was awarded a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Missouri in 1964, then later continued her education at the University of Central Oklahoma, earning her a Masters degree in English...
, Brian Henry
Brian Henry
Brian Henry is an American poet, translator, editor, and literary critic. He lives in Richmond, Virginia.-Education:Henry completed a BA at the College of William and Mary and an MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst....
, Ethan Paquin
Ethan Paquin
Ethan Paquin is an American poet and a native of New Hampshire. He grew up in Londonderry, New Hampshire. He earned a BA in English/Writing from Plymouth State College in Plymouth, New Hampshire, and his MFA in Creative Writing from the MFA Program for Poets & Writers, University of Massachusetts,...
, Paul Hoover
Paul Hoover
Paul Hoover is an American poet and editor born in Harrisonburg, Virginia.His work has been associated with the New York School poets and innovative practices such as New York School and language poetry....
, LeAnne Howe
LeAnne Howe
LeAnne Howe is an author and scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. An enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Howe's work has been published in a variety of journals and anthologies. Her book Shell Shaker received the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book...
, Kimberley Blaeser, Aaron McCollough
Aaron McCollough
-Life and career:Aaron McCollough was born in 1971 in Columbus, Ohio and raised in Tennessee. He has a BA from the University of the South , an MA in English Literature from North Carolina State University , an MFA in Creative Writing from the Iowa Writers' Workshop , as well as an MA and PhD in...
, James Reiss
James Reiss
-Biography:James Reiss grew up in the Washington Heights section of New York City and in northern New Jersey. He earned his B.A. and his M.A. in English from the University of Chicago....
, Carter Revard
Carter Revard
Carter Curtis Revard is an American poet, writer and scholar. He is part Osage on his father's side. He is also known by his Osage name, Nom-Peh-Wah-The given to him in 1952 by his grandmother, Mrs. Josephine Jump....
, Ron Silliman
Ron Silliman
Ron Silliman is an American poet. He has written and edited over 30 books, and has had his poetry and criticism translated into 12 languages. He is often associated with language poetry. Between 1979 and 2004, Silliman wrote a single poem, The Alphabet...
, Gerald Vizenor
Gerald Vizenor
Gerald Robert Vizenor is a Native American writer, and an enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, White Earth Reservation. One of the most prolific Native American writers, with over 30 books to his name, Vizenor also taught for many years at the University of California, Berkeley, where...
and Susan Wheeler
Susan Wheeler
Susan Wheeler is an educator and award-winning poet whose poems have frequently appeared in anthologies. She currently teaches creative writing at Princeton University.Her published works include:...
, and new work by Australian authors Pam Brown
Pam Brown
Pam Brown is an Australian poet.- Career :Brown was born in Seymour, Victoria, and her childhood was spent in on military bases in Toowoomba and Brisbane. Since her early twenties, she has mostly lived in Sydney...
, Jill Jones (poet)
Jill Jones (poet)
Jill Jones is a poet and writer living in Sydney, Australia.In 1993 she won the Mary Gilmore Prize for her first book of poetry, The Mask and the Jagged Star . Her third book, The Book of Possibilities , was published in 1997. It was shortlisted for the National Book Council 'Banjo' Awards and the...
, Kate Lilley
Kate Lilley
-Early life:Kate Lilley was born in Perth, Western Australia and moved to Sydney with her family. She is the daughter of writers Dorothy Hewett and Merv Lilley....
, Peter Minter, Peter Rose
Peter Rose (poet)
Peter Rose is an Australian poet, critic, novelist and editor. He belongs to a notable Collingwood Football Club family. His father, Bob Rose, was a famous player and coach. His brother, Robert Rose , played for Collingwood and opened the batting for Victoria before an accident left him a...
, Tom Shapcott and John Tranter
John Tranter
John Ernest Tranter is an Australian poet, publisher and editor. He has a long list of achievements in writing, publishing and broadcasting...
. A new children's list includes poets Philip Gross
Philip Gross
Philip Gross is a poet, novelist and playwright. He was born in Delabole, Cornwall and grew up in Plymouth. He lives in Penarth, South Wales, and was appointed Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Glamorgan in 2004, a position he still holds. He previously taught creative writing at...
, John Mole
John Mole
John Mole was an English bass guitar player.Mole was born in Stratford, London. A member of Jon Hiseman's reformed Colosseum II, he went on to work with fellow band members Gary Moore and Don Airey...
, Andrew Fusek Peters, Angela Topping
Angela Topping
Angela Topping is a British poet, literary critic and author. She has published three solo poetry collections, Dandelions for Mothers' Day , The Fiddle and The Way We Came ....
among others.