But there's also a 'flashmob' gathering in London today - er, just now - at the Southbank Centre, at 3pm London time, to celebrate ten years of Salt Publishing with a mass public recital of Pablo Neruda's "Ode to Salt."
To get you in the mood:
Ode to Salt
This saltin the salt cellar
I once saw in the salt mines.
I know
you won't
believe me
but
it sings
salt sings, the skin
of the salt mines
sings
with a mouth smothered
by the earth.
by Pablo Neruda
Much more here at this link
4 comments:
I think Salt does great work supporting emerging writers but their website is awful. There's no way of working out what book you might like to read. You have to click on each one individually and go back to the long long list for the next one. They're doing themselves no favours. The last book I bought from them I didn't enjoy at all.
I've had a few books from them and got a few more ordered and they've been really brill - speedy delivery and great service. I hope very much they stay afloat.
I think it's a shame the smaller publishers are getting squeezed by the pythons of the corporate world ... it can only result in the destruction of our civilization as we know it. Go Salt - I hope you can survive somehow.
(Love the poem - yours?)
Thanks gals for dropping in. EW, sometimes books are like that; but in the main, Salt books I've got that I enjoyed number about six to seven - could be more.
Rachel, me too.
Kay, Not mine - Pablo Neruda! Must go and credit it properly - oops!
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