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'''The Poetry Bookshop''' operated at 35 Devonshire Street (now Boswell Street) in the [[Bloomsbury]] district of central [[London]], from [[1913 in poetry|1913]] to [[1926 in poetry|1926]]. It was the brainchild of [[Harold Monro]], and was supported by his moderate income.<ref>Joy Grant, ''Harold Monro and the Poetry Bookshop'' (Berkeley, 1967)</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date= |title=Harold Monro |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/harold-monro |access-date=2023-01-08 |website=Poetry Foundation |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=The Poetry Bookshop |url=https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/organisation/the-poetry-bookshop |access-date=2023-01-08 |website=[[Royal Academy of Arts]]}}</ref><br />
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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, including [[Wilfred Owen]], [[Wilfrid Wilson Gibson]] and [[Robert Frost]]. The atmosphere was welcoming, and the shop's best-sellers were hand-coloured rhyme sheets for children.<br />
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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.<br />
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Among the works published by the Poetry Bookshop were collections by [[Charlotte Mew]] and [[Richard Aldington]] and the ''[[Georgian Poetry]]'' series as well as [[Ezra Pound]]'s seminal [[1914 in poetry|1914]] anthology ''[[Des Imagistes]]''.<br />
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[[Penelope Fitzgerald]] 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.<br />
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==References==<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
* Grant, Joy (1967) ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=F_I6z2zf8tIC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA60 Harold Monro and the Poetry Bookshop]'' University of California Press<br />
* Woolmer, Howard J (1988) ''The Poetry Bookshop 1912-1935, a bibliography '' St Paul's Bibliographies<br />
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