The Salt of Something NewThe Salt of Something New is the much anticipated debut collection of poems by Dublin based Chandrika Narayanan Mohan. The poems explore love and attraction, excitement and disappointment, responding to the city both as homeplace and as the site of ongoing discoveries and negotiations. I think about connections, commitment, islands she writes in the poem that give the book its title. How I feel about home, waiting at the edge of things, wondering when

Trish Cooke (author) is an award-winning author

irrascible outlook makes her a caustic and often bitingly funny observer and her unique voice becomes an irresistable narrative voice

are sent for by the Criminal Investigation Department of Middleham-by-Sea –

which has a profound effect on both

When his wife returns to her parents house to have their second child

yet this small collection

com and ad-liberation

Fascinated by the “otherness” of things

He dreams of restoring his honour and his fortune when he returns to London with the king's victorious army

and no one seems to question it except for one young boy

Apollinaire

winter tides