Known for taking poetry out of the
classroom and into
London club culture, – poetry to dance to – Salena
is
reputedly one of Britain’s most visceral raw-gut
talents.
Her poetry and short stories are published in
magazines/anthologies worldwide, including magazines
Gargoyle, Rising, Shoe, The Brobdingagian Times,
Lucid
Moon, Coke Fishing, Yominomo, APE, PIL, Medicinal
Purposes, Slugfest, and The Idler; and anthologies
The
Fire People, Girlboy, Oral, Artefiction and IC3:
The
Penguin Bool of New Black Writing in Britain.
She is
included in a collection of short stories published
by
Serpent’s Tail, featuring London’s notorious
Filthy
McNasty’s “Vox n’ Roll” writers entitled Hot
Sauce With Everything. Her chapbook trilogy, Saline Trips and Saline Trips
Too, sold out and December 2000 marks the
release of the eagerly awaited final chapter,
Saline Trips
Free. A short film of her poem Snooker was aired
on
Channel 4 in October 2000.
Salena works frequently with 21st century visionary,
music partner/producer Peter ‘Peyote’ Coyte (The
PC
Collective). Together they produce Saltpetre,
a quarterly
recording which offers definitive collections
of spoken
word on CD. Salena and Peter are currently on
air with
two Saltpetre radio shows, producing and hosting
unique
two-hour specials on BBC London Live, as well
as a
fortnightly show on National Student Broadcast
Network. Egg Yolk Planet Fried by Salena Saliva and the PC Collective,
their debut album, is out on Saltpetre
Records.
Salena featured on the last two Coldcut albums,
Let Us
Play and Let Us Replay, alongside the likes of
Jello Biafra and Grandmaster Flash, and has performed and toured
New York, Japan, UK and Europe extensively. She
will be taking her words to Oz, (Sydney, Melbourne) and then back to New
York throughout Dec/Jan 2001.
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Things for sale!!!!!!
Salena says:
I have chapbooks for sale titled SALINE TRIPS
FREE and 2 CD's. One is my first album titled EGG YOLK PLANET FRIED and
the other is SALTPETRE Volume
One the CD anthologies that i produce and host
over in England.
And a plug of sorts
also there is a spin off SALTPETRE radio show
i do...for student radio and the bbc...so any poets/writer/authors that
have anything recorded on any format... that i might like to play on my
shows and/or use for the next collection... when i get back on the air
would be cool...tell them to bring it along...
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