And not even famous Seamus manages that...!
Doug
On 2011-02-21, at 5:18 PM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
> Or, if we take the putative audience for a new book of poems in English as
> being the world population of English speakers (est. as approx 1.277
> billion) then it would have to sell just 5 million and 108 thousand copies
> to maintain an equivalent impact. :)
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