Shoot, I'd'uv published 4,000 books last year myself
if I hadn't been so lazy.
Hal
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On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 11:41 AM, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]
> wrote:
> Andrew
>
> In a BBC programme broadcast last night Michael Schmidt (he of Carcanet)
> claimed that 2,000 copies were published in England (did he mean the UK?)
> per annum whereas it was about 150 when he started Carcanet 30 odd years
> ago.
> While I've recently seen a figure of 4,000 per annum for the U.S of A.
>
> However pin-point those figures are I think they give a something-
> like-what-it-is accuracy. I'd imagine the main reasons include the relative
> ease and cheapness of printing technology nowadays and the superabundance
> of
> both the early retired and the ambitious.
>
> 2009/12/7 andrew burke <[log in to unmask]>
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> > I'm curious if an answer is possible to my query: How many poetry books
> are
> > published per annum in USA? UK? Canada? NZ? Other English writing
> cultures?
> > In Australia, a friend who should know says over 150 poetry collections
> > have
> > been published here in the past year. Amazing - I never thought the
> figure
> > would be so high.
> >
> > Anyone have any figures, or well founded guesstimates? I see lists of new
> > titles on Poetry Daily and on Ron Silliman's blog and I am always
> surprised
> > at the number of poets I have never heard of bringing out their umpteenth
> > book! Or, even their first.
> >
> > Btw, on my blog, there is an interesting article from the Guardian in UK
> > about the Bad Sex awards. Worth reading.
> >
> >
> > Andrew
> >
> > 'Beyond City Limits', pub. ICLL @ ECU, available at topnotch indie
> > bookshops
> > - list at http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
> >
>
>
>
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