Aside from the reverse order in which I received the recent exchanges
betweeen Roddy & Sean, this whole thing does seem restricted to the British
poets on the list, which may be why the rest of us are rather silent right
now (although I have had far too much to do off-list the past few weeks to
even think of writing here too).
I will mention this: in Canada, OUP also put an end to their poetry list,
escept for anthologies from other countries' OUPs, &, probably, continuing
to reprint a few, such as Margaret Atwood (whose last book of poems,
however, came from McClelland & Stewart, the only 'major' press in Canada
still puiblishing poetry, if in very small quantities). But then the small
presses in Canada have carried the load, pretty well, ever since the 1960s,
& though some of them have also cut back (& been cut by the Canada
Council), that's where the real action still is.
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
(h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
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