"but the sprawling amount of poetry versus the ever diminishing galley space for it in book shops was / is a problem." For who is this is a problem? Isn't the reality of poetry distribution/selling more a case of word of mouth, person-to-person, social exhange, Peter Riley, Paul Green, lists like this. The last place I go to buy poetry these days is a bookshop. Cheers David PS: I assume the black line you've put down the side of this message is an ironic black armband for the passing of OUP?