Years back in the heyday if there was one of the Poetry Bookshop I had a
book by Dennis O'Driscoll in the window. I overheard the following
remark from a couple outside:
What they do is
they get all these books in
& wait for somebody to write and say
'Have you got a book by Dennis O'Driscoll?'
so it's not a shop
to look around in.
...
NOT I hasten to say a remark about Dennis' work but something to do with
the public perception of a poetry bookshop ...
--
Alan Halsey
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