Please excuse use of Br-Poets billets-doux network to announce that the poetry-selling business at this address will be inoperative after tomorrow until about 5th January. And to all subscribers to Poetical Histories and those awaiting delivery of my own "Author" and sundries other books, that the whole lot will come together when the new batch of three PHs is delivered to me, which should be about 5th January.An advertisement for non-subscribers will follow. Richard Price is right: Alistair Macintyre should be compulsory reading for all poets, or at least all those who intend to talk about it. Plus a course in elementary logic and the meaningof words. Keep the sweet notes flowing, all you bitter almonds out there. //Rileybooks %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%