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Mornin' Chris, You've hit the nail on the head here. The primary channels being narrow (in some cases close to drying up) there's only so much which lands on shore. For those like myself who have neither the money nor the time to go actively prospecting in the multitude of literary magazines, the experience of what's out there is pretty much limited to your questioned-marked list and to the Bloodaxe anthologies (good point). Bloodaxe 'New Poets'? Looked to me like all the old ones lumped together. More Liz Lochhead anybody? Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Bear in mind also that few people have the luxury of being omniverous in their tastes, whether it's poetry or music or whatever -- stocking up on the latest Nusrat Ali Fateh Khan CDs requires disposable income, again. Unless you're of a mind to spend sunny weekends in the library, and assuming their stock contains anything beyond the Heaney-Hughes-Duffy range. Mind you, now that Randolph's list has been posted, why doesn't someone with a knowledge of these writers put a selection together and submit it for publication? More productive than whinging about it, I would have thought. And I for one would buy it, next time I had a spare couple of bob. Andy %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%