 | Chris Hamilton-Emery was born in Manchester in 1963 and studied painting and printmaking in Leeds. He is a Director of Salt in London. His poetry has appeared in numerous journals around the world and he has lectured extensively on publishing matters throughout the UK. Before joining Salt has was Press Production Director of Cambridge University Press. He won an American Book Award in 2006 for his work as an editor. His first full-length collection of poetry was Dr. Mephisto (Arc Publications, 2002), his latest collection is Radio Nostalgia (Arc Publications, 2006). He is also the author or a bestselling writer’s guide, 101 Ways to Make Poems Sell (Salt Publishing, 2006) and an anthology, Poets in View: A Visual Anthology of 50 Classic Poems. He has also edited the selected poems of Emily Brontë, John Keats and Christina Rossetti. He lives in Great Wilbraham with his wife, three children and various other animals. |
Poets in View: A Visual Anthology of 50 Classic Poems (Salt, 2008)
101 Ways to Make Poems Sell: The Salt Guide to Getting and Staying Published (Salt, 2006)
Radio Nostalgia (Arc, 2006)
"Just when Kant's formulation that 'the public exercise of reason should be free' had begun to seem so remote and exhausted, the Battle should reinforce one's faith in the enduring worth of dissent and of the free traffic in ideas"
Swapan Chakravorty, professor of english, Jadavpur University
