is the title of a volume of poetry on sale last night at the public event in the Royal Festival Hall, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the death of T.S.Eliot, organized by the Poetry Book Society, with a performance of the Waste Land.
Librarians & Cultural Change has always been interested in the organisational form of knowledge organisation, (the spell checker prefers Z to s in this term) so finding that Eliot founded the PBS, the event is part of the awarding of the Poetry Prize (to continue tonight at the V&A with an awards ceremony) and is funded by the Eliot estate makes for the sort of detail one doesn't want to miss out on.
But we like the idea of beautiful librarians and that should include poems.
We could move from here to the fluidity of the multi-faceted digital object, an event coming up at the Institute of Historical Research to which we will return, but for the moment think poetry. There were quite a few other books on sale, so the connections between PBS, Faber & Faber, Penguin, and a couple of other publishers must indicate a market, though the thought returns that it might be the prize money that matters. The till turning is the political machine, the PBS & Eliot estate the political assemblage.
John Lindsay
Reader in Information Systems Design
Kingston University,
Kingston Upon Thames,
London.
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