Saving Salt

I was shocked to hear that the relatively new poetry publisher Salt have found themselves in trouble through the recession. Without them and the even smaller but wonderful Shearsman British poetry publishing would have a lot less range. They've posted a very simple rescue plan: buy one of their books, asap!
Here's four I'd recommend:
1. The End of Limbo by Valeria Melchioretto. Absolutely unique. I won't give some spiel, just look at the poems on Salt and then buy it if you like them as much as I do.
2. A book by Vahni Capildeo, one of the poets writing in Britain I really like to read (and to hear: she's a very good performer, by the way)
3. The book I haven't read yet but want to, Lake Onega and Other Poems, so have just bought: by the experimental Finnish poet Leevi Lehto. I heard Marjorie Perloff talk about his poetry the other week, and lo and behold, he's a Salt poet too.
4. A book I've very much enjoyed, the Venezuelan poet Eugenio Montejo's The Trees. I'd never heard of this wonderful poet before Salt put him out.
In fact, one poem I liked so much that it found it's way in a re-working into one of my poems (that homage to Montejo is in the new Shearsman magazine, no.s 79/80, also worth buying!)

Let's hope Salt make it, for all the amazing poetry and short stories they can still bring to our attention.