A Poetry Boom 1990-2010

by Andrew Duncan

The figures we have tell that the number of new books of poetry published each year nearly doubled between 1976 and 1993 and then nearly doubled again by 2000, then staying at this level. In the years 1999-2001 roughly as many books of poetry were published as in the whole of the 1970s. This is a poetry boom. We seem to have a situation where there are 100,000 Eng Lit graduates and 10,000 write a book of poems and succeed in getting it published...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848614233
• ISBN13: 9781848614239
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Shearsman Books
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"