I didn’t know Salt had stopped publishing poetry. I just found out from this thread.
Here’s a quote from a blog about the situation:
“The demise of Salt's poetry list might well be down to a wide range of causes. The fact is that they found it very difficult to place their verse collections in major bookshops. Furthermore, I do feel they might have overextended themselves in terms of the number of collections they published, especially 2/3 years ago. It's clear that poets must put major work in to market their own books, but they also need strong support behind them in the form of their publisher. With extremely limited human resources, Salt sometimes had to let poets (and their books) very much sink or swim. It was a huge achievement just to publish such terrific poetry in gorgeous packaging in those circumstances!”
http://roguestrands.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/the-demise-of-salts-poetry-list.html
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