Salt Rooms, issue 02, Summer 2025 cover

Issue 02 · Summer 2025

Salt Rooms

Published 4 July 2025. Single copy £14.

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From the editor

Instructions written after the swim

Summer issues are often asked to be lighter. We resisted, a little. Salt Rooms is about places that stay damp: lidos after closing, let rooms, maps drawn once you have already arrived. The blue in Soren Vale’s criticism would not dry, and neither would the season.

Our second printing sold through. If you are reading the excerpts here, the digital edition still holds the full texts. The print copies, for this one, are a rumour.

Rowan Hale, editor

An empty open-air swimming pool in low evening sun
Stock photo, for illustration: Alexander Blecher / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Credits

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