Actually if I recall right the figure for the USA did say something like
'not including Halvard Johnson's'
2009/12/7 Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]>
> Shoot, I'd'uv published 4,000 books last year myself
> if I hadn't been so lazy.
>
> Hal
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> "We don't serve fine wine in half-pints, buddy."
> --Robert Ashley
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> On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 11:41 AM, David Bircumshaw <
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> > wrote:
>
> > Andrew
> >
> > In a BBC programme broadcast last night Michael Schmidt (he of Carcanet)
> > claimed that 2,000 copies were published in England (did he mean the UK?)
> > per annum whereas it was about 150 when he started Carcanet 30 odd years
> > ago.
> > While I've recently seen a figure of 4,000 per annum for the U.S of A.
> >
> > However pin-point those figures are I think they give a something-
> > like-what-it-is accuracy. I'd imagine the main reasons include the
> relative
> > ease and cheapness of printing technology nowadays and the superabundance
> > of
> > both the early retired and the ambitious.
> >
> > 2009/12/7 andrew burke <[log in to unmask]>
> >
> > > I'm curious if an answer is possible to my query: How many poetry books
> > are
> > > published per annum in USA? UK? Canada? NZ? Other English writing
> > cultures?
> > > In Australia, a friend who should know says over 150 poetry collections
> > > have
> > > been published here in the past year. Amazing - I never thought the
> > figure
> > > would be so high.
> > >
> > > Anyone have any figures, or well founded guesstimates? I see lists of
> new
> > > titles on Poetry Daily and on Ron Silliman's blog and I am always
> > surprised
> > > at the number of poets I have never heard of bringing out their
> umpteenth
> > > book! Or, even their first.
> > >
> > > Btw, on my blog, there is an interesting article from the Guardian in
> UK
> > > about the Bad Sex awards. Worth reading.
> > >
> > >
> > > Andrew
> > >
> > > 'Beyond City Limits', pub. ICLL @ ECU, available at topnotch indie
> > > bookshops
> > > - list at http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
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> > You say are poems" - DMeltzer
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David Bircumshaw
"A window./Big enough to hold screams/
You say are poems" - DMeltzer
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
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