Buying poetry books, reading them, having them lying around ready to dive back into even for a quick moment, having them calling us from our shelves and our bedside table - that's a gift. Poets and poetry publishers are doing God's work
M a r i a n t h i
Not to poet-post, but one of the problems of the internet is that it's fuelled a culture in which people "love poetry" but never actually pay for it - consuming fragments posted online instead of immersing themselves in full collections - then being surprised when poets ask to be paid for their work
