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Or even: Having long ago lost my copy of this interesting/repulsive, seminal/insignificant, funny/humourless 1996 anthology I was struck that yesterday, when I regained a copy, it was not in an independent bookshop (what are they in Britain?) nor a second-bookshop but in a charity shop. Interesting refuge for poetry in post-neo-Thatcherite-Blarite Padel-with-security-guards (see the Guardian on the Hay Literary festival) little bankrupt britain methought. (I love it when I make a blunder in a post and immediately have to reply to myself. I suppose it might be a kind of failsafe: in case nobody else responds!) 2009/5/30 David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]> > I long ago lost my copy of this interesting/repulsive, > seminal/insignificant, funny/humourless 1996 anthology I was struck that > yesterday, when regained a copy, it was not in an independent bookshop (what > are they in Britain?) nor a second-bookshop but in a charity shop. > Interesting refuge for poetry in post-neo-Thatcherite-Blarite > Padel-with-security-guards (see the Guardian on the Hay Literary festival) > little bankrupt britain methought. > > -- > David Bircumshaw > "Nothing can be done in the face > of ordinary unhappiness" - PP > Website and A Chide's Alphabet > http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk > The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html > Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk > -- David Bircumshaw "Nothing can be done in the face of ordinary unhappiness" - PP Website and A Chide's Alphabet http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk