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for quite a few years attempted to interest a publisher in a book on the shop. Her letters reveal the amount of work she did, some of which was useful to her when she wrote her biography of Charlotte Mew.
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by living poets. Readers were encouraged to browse, and several poets actually made their home there, including
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Among the works published by the Poetry Bookshop were collections by
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operated at 35 Devonshire Street (now Boswell Street) in the
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