>It has always
>fascinated me that, although marketers do treat product as interchangable
>widgets, they still cannot or will not 'market' poetry. It resists all the
>way down the line.
You're right, Jill, and it gives me some perverse hope that this is the
case...
I think here of a friend of mine, who edited an extremely successful
anthology of poetry which sold something in the realm of 40,000 copies,
being told by his publisher that his submission for an anthology of
contemporary poetry was being turned down because "poetry didn't sell".
He's a mild man, but fury isn't the word for his response!
Cheers
Alison
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