> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:05:43 +0000
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> Subject: Re: Review of Salt's "The Best British Poetry 2011"
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> Clearly the economic straitening and the repositioning along more mainstream lines are two sides of the same coin. Chris H-E has frequently remarked on how his experimental titles have been a dead loss in terms of sales. Chris' own poetry is fairly solidly mainstream, and surely it's admirable, though of course not unusual among publishers, that he even attempted to publish books with such a range of ideas about what poetry can be.
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> But the glory days of Daly's DaDaDa, Leevi Lehto and Allen Fisher's Gravity, are perhaps gone. Or it may change again. Amy De'Ath's book came out in Salt only a year back. By the way she's also in Lumsden's anthology.
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> It isn't difficult to publish non-mainstream poetry but these meeting grounds with wider poetry audiences are vital things. I remember Shearsman in my prayers every day.