Salena Godden
Salena Godden is a British poet, performer and writer living in North London. Her stories and poetry have appeared in Dazed & Confused, Salzburg Review, Le Gun, Penguin's IC3, Canongate's Fire People, Serpents Tail's Croatian Nights and Hodder & Stoughton's Oral. Godden records and performs in the ska-punk-breakbeat duo, SaltPeter, with Peter Coyte. SaltPeter's album, Hunger's The Best Sauce was listed in The Independent on Sunday as one of the outstanding albums of 2007.[1] She will also be partaking in the Bush Theatre's 2011 project Sixty Six where he has written a piece based upon a chapter of the King James Bible[2]
Salena Godden's latest collection 'Under The Pier' was published by hip-indie imprint Nasty Little Press in 2011. Most recently her work appears in Shortfire Press, The Dark Times, Illustrated Ape Magazine, Trespass Magazine, Paraphilia, Rising, Teller Magazine, The Mechanics Institute Review published by Birkbeck University and Picador's Punk Fiction. Her poetry featured in the three latest anthologies from Tangerine Press titled Dwang, hand-bound bespoke collections. Salena Godden hosts and produces The Book Club Boutique - Soho's hippest literary salon - purveyors of their own unique brand of Books, Booze and Boogie-Woogie. Salena is the lyricist / lead singer of The Book Club Boutique Band and also underground ska-break duo SaltPeter. She features regularly on BBC's 'The Verb' and 'Bespoken Word' and is a poet in residence on Radio 4's 'Saturday Live'. This summer her narrative play 'A Valentine At Waterloo' will be aired and podcast as part of the BBC’s 'Verse Illustrated' series. And in the Autumn she will be partaking in the Bush Theatre's 2011 project Sixty Six where she has written a piece based upon a chapter of the King James Bible. Finally, Salena facilitates workshops for First Story - a charity created by author William Fiennes - that aims to foster and nurture literacy and creative writing in secondary schools.
Appearances
Television & Radio:
2011 BBC Radio 4 / Verse Illustrated
2011 BBC Radio 3 / The Verb
2010–present BBC Radio 4/ Saturday Live
2010 Bespoken Word
2009 Resonance Radio/Black Is…
2006 BBC Radio 3/ The Verb
2006 BBC Radio 4 /Women’s Hour
2005 BBC Radio 3/ The Verb
2005 BBC Radio 4/Bespoken Word/2nd series
2004 Channel 4/ /Seaside On The Rocks Documentary
2001 - 2005 Resonance FM/The Saltpetre Radio Show
2003 BBC Radio 4/Sony Nominated Bespoken Word
2003 BBC Radio 4/Poetry Please Commission
2003 Channel 4/Heavy TV/8-week chat-show
2002/2003 BBC LDN/ Word For Word Show
2001/2002 BBC London Live/Solid Steel/regular Saltpetre
2000 SBN/Craig Pilling Show/regular Saltpetre
2000 Channel 4/SLAM/ “Snooker” poetry short film
1998/1999 GLR/Andrea Oliver Show/12-week series
Selected publishing: magazines & anthologies:
2011: Juicy Fruit Teller Magazine / ISSN 2047-1998
2011: Under The Pier (collected poems) Nasty Little Press / ISBN 978-0-9563767-4-9
2010: Harpers Daydreams MIR Review – Issue 7 / Birkbeck University / ISBN 978-0-9547933-7-1
2009: Ever Fallen In Love Punk Fiction / Portico / ISBN 978-1-906032-66-1
2009–Present: 6AM & Hastings & Snow From Beneath (excerpt: Laugh, Kookaburra Laugh) Dwang / Tangerine Press / ISBN 978-0-9553402-3-9
2008: How We Met co-written with Oli Spleen Gay Times / Gay Times / ISSN 0950-6101
2007: Play It Again Sam The Illustrated Ape / Ape Magazine / ISSN 1368 2954
2006: The Last Big Drinky The Decadent Handbook / Dedalus Books / 1-903517-30-3
2006: Skying & York Hall, Bethnal Green The Salzberg Review / Salzberg Review / ISSN: 1561-5871
2005: A Piece Of The Moon Croatian Nights / Serpents Tail /1-85242-820-0
2004: Katoushka Tell Tales / Tell Tales / 0-9547761-0-0
2003: Fierce Pink Lamb Chop & York Hall Bethnal Green Velocity / Black Spring Press / 0-948238-28-3
2001: Flies That Whore In Kitchens Vox n Roll / Serpents Tail / 1-85242-624-1
2000: Clipped And Caged IC3 - New Black Writing / Penguin / 0-241-14074-9
1999: To The Man With The Hair & TV Ladies Oral / Hodder & Sceptre / 0-340-75051-0
1999: Stubble Girlboy / Pulp Faction / 1-899571-07-8
1998: Dutch Courage & Blue Cheese, Raw Fish, Olives The Fire People / Canongate / 0-86241-739-2
1996–Present: various short fiction / poetry Rising Magazine edited by Tim Wells
Discography
2007 Salena Godden/ ‘Promise Of Gold’ TwoFive Apples & Snakes
2007 SaltPeter/ ‘Hunger’s The Best Sauce’ album FRED Records
2007 SaltPeter/ ‘I’m Not Gay But…’ EP FRED Records
2006 SaltPeter/ ‘Everybody Back To Mine’ E.P FRED Records
2006 Coldcut/ DVD Ninja Tune Records
2005 SaltPeter/ ‘SaltPervert’ E.P SaltPeter Records
2005 Alabama 3 feat Salena Saliva/’Boots’ One Little Indian
2004 Going down Swinging/compilation/Australia GDS
2003 SaltPervert/5AM/single re-mix OXYD Records.
2003 Gargoyle Spoken Word CD/compilation/USA Gargoyle
2003 Perfecto Presents…Seb Fontaine/compilation Perfecto
2003 Flat Pack Antenna/Resonance FM compilation Resonance FM
2000 SS&PC/Egg Yolk Planet Fried debut album Saltpetre Records
1999 Saltpetre CD/Volume One Saltpetre Records
1999 Coldcut/Let Us Replay/ ‘Virginia Epitome’ Ninja Tune Records
1998 Coldcut/Let Us Play/ ‘Noah’s Toilet’ Ninja Tune Records
References
- ↑ http://www.tiborjones.com/author_salena_godden.html
- ↑ "Bush Theatre". Bush Theatre. Retrieved 2011-08-01.