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Chrys Salt

Chrys Salt © Claire Newman-Williams
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Chrys Salt has performed her poetry across the UK and internationally. She has published four full collections and five pamphlets, had her poems published in magazines and anthologies and broadcast on Radio 3 and 4. She also writes theatre and radio plays, features and documentaries and has written seven books for actors (Methuen Drama). She runs performance and skills development workshops for writers and performers, and is Artistic Director of The Bakehouse, an arts venue in SW Scotland, and Literature Convener for BIG LIT: The Stewartry Book Festival in South West Scotland.

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  • The Burning

Selected Bibliography

Inside Out (Autolycus, 1989)
Daffodils at Christmas (Galloway Poets Series, 1996)
Greedy for Mulberries: selected poems 1989-2007 (Markings, 2008)
Old Times (Roncadora, 2009)
Grass (Indigo Dreams, 2012)
Home Front/Front Line (Roncadora, 2013)
A ‘Fighe Le Feur / Weaver of Grass (Hattericks House, 2013)
Dancing on a Rock (Indigo Dreams, 2015)
The Punkawallah’s Rope (Indigo Dreams, 2017)

Further Information

Chrys Salt’s website

The Bakehouse

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Chrys Salt

April 2015
Chrys Salt talks about writing war poetry when you have a son who is a soldier, and how poetry can benefit from a good performance.
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