- Poetry Bookshop
The Poetry Bookshop, which ran in
Bloomsbury ,London , from 1913 to 1926, was the brainchild ofHarold Monro , and was supported by his moderate income.The Bookshop not only sold, but also published,
poetry by living poets. Readers were encouraged to browse, and several poets actually made their home there, includingWilfred Wilson Gibson andRobert Frost . The atmosphere was welcoming, and the shop's best-sellers were hand-coloured rhyme sheets for children.During
World War I , when Monro was serving in the armed forces, the shop was run almost single-handed by his assistant, Alida Klementaski, whom he later married.Among the works published by the Poetry Bookshop were collections by
Charlotte Mew andRichard Aldington as well asEzra Pound 's seminal 1914 anthology "Des Imagistes".
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