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On Sat, 2 Aug 2003 15:17:48 +0100, Tony Frazer <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >Peter's claim may have been a little all-encompassing, but I don't >think he's far off the mark. "All over the world editors and readers think..." seems to have shrunk rather drastically in your account to the bookshops of Germany and France."A little all-encompassing" is, I hope, a witty understatement. Forty-ish and under poets from the rest of the world are hardly represented in British bookshops either...this is a problem surely of the slow (and sometimes arbitrary) process of translation, selection, and the willingness of publishing houses - as you seem to acknowledge. Which American poets of the younger generation are available in other languages? None's my guess. And anyway it would hardly prove that editors and readers all over the world think British poetry is old-fashioned? Best, Iain