A bookshop and arts centre run by a prominent Irish poetry publisher has been saved from closure after a GoFundMe campaign raised more than €60,000 – enough to buy new premises in a former pub.
Salmon Poetry, which has published more than 300 Irish and international poets including Elaine Feeney, Carol Ann Duffy and Rachel Coventry, established a bookshop and literary centre in a leased building in Ennistymon, County Clare, in 2012. The publisher hoped to eventually buy the building, but the owners ultimately decided to use it themselves, and in March last year told Salmon that it would have to vacate the premises by the end of August.
