i didn't know they were charging school children as young as four 15 quid and 99 pence for an anthology.  i thought they just did a good line in performance poetry and suplimented their income with printing.  
it probably was the mumsnet article that done them in.  someone said it was a 25 percent drop in trade that finnished it, which would probably be their school trade.


Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 13:52:17 +0000
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Subject: Re: Poetry publisher Forward Press ceases to trade with 100 staff redundant
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They used the name to attempt to ride on the Forward Prizes reputation.
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Possibly related in technique, there’s The School of Economic Science (occasionally known as the London School of Economic Science):
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School of Economic Science
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-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_Economic_Science
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There are more than a few a few bodies buried in that particular can of worms.
 
Then there’s a not-unsuccessful *academic vanity press publisher ...
 
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