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Presuming the poet is the devout (and profanely gifted) Jamie McKendrick, I would say the saint who prayed for Faber intervention would be St Thomas Paulinus of Boke. But my hagiology is not holy up to scratch. Roddy -----Original Message----- From: A.J. Croggon <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Date: 10 April 2000 10:05 Subject: Re: OUP - una nota >What I am interested to know is the name of the saint. I would have >thought St Jude. > >Ever on the quivive - > >Alison > > > >On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, erminia passannanti wrote: > >> Dear English colleagues and poets, >> >> I am not willing to vote, but make a comment: >> >> One of my friends was once an Oxford University Press poet. >> He was very content. >> One day he had a great disappointment for the death of the OUP series and >> deeply mourned his and other poets' destiny. >> But one day, by mean of some miraculous saint - Catholic, I hoped, but >> catholic he wasn't - my friend found a new publisher: (confidentially, Faber >> (and Faber). >> >> Let's take a vote how powerful that Saint was: >> Please mark one of the following >> and reply to the list: >> >> - successful by mean of chance >> - moderately powerful >> - powerful >> - very powerful >> - monstrously powerful >> - indecently powerful >> - abominably powerful >> >> >> EP >> >> >> ______________________________________________________ >> Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com >> >> > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%