poetry in performance

Saturday, 25 May 2013

Is the slim volume dead?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/may/24/salt-poetry-market-slump

Interesting article about Salt abandoning single-author poetry books.   In a way this isn't that surprising - even people whoe write poetry don't buy many books, and I think one major issue is that while people do buy novels online sight unseen, you really need to browse through a poetryt book befoe you buy it, so now there aren't many bookshops, and those there are don't stock poetry, nobody will.

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