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    Posted on May 27th, 2009sherryPublishers

    From The Guardian’s Book Blog:

    “Please … let it stop now. Haven’t we suffered enough?” has been my silent prayer to the gods of poetry in the last few days. I cannot be the only person sick of the Oxford Professor of Poetry saga? And while this soap opera of the dons was being played out, one of the most important publishers of contemporary poetry in the UK had its back to the financial wall. Despite some plucky moves on the part of Salt Publishing to avert the worst more of which later it still faces the prospect of going under. This is the sort of cause that the Oxford professor of poetry should have championed by bringing Salt’s talented poets to wider public attention if nothing else.

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