Eva Salzman grew up in Brooklyn and on Long Island and has lived in the UK since 1985. Her first book The English Earthquake was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and her second volume Bargain With The Watchman won a Special Commendation. Double Crossing: New and Selected Poems, her most recent anthology was published last month. She is currently working on a new novel Broken Islands.

Recent articles

Novelist and poet Eva Salzman finds wit and compassion in Timothy Tyson’s alternative history of the black civil rights movement.

“There is nothing so ordinary as the extraordinary Principality of Ponquattuck.” The second of two extracts from Eva Salzman’s novel-in-progress, “Broken Island”.

Amid the “fan-like debris / of the tides”, Eva Salzman searches for another shore.

“Once visited you take the smell of the sea with you everywhere, for the rest of your life”. On the shores of Ponquattuck, North America’s “Land of Water”, Eva Salzman finds the biggest treasure of all: the sea itself. The first of two extracts from a novel-in-progress, “Broken Island”.