Description:
The Selling and Self-Regulation of Contemporary Poetry is the first book-length study of the contemporary poetry industry. By documenting radical changes over the past decade in the way poems are published, marketed, and circulated, it connects the seemingly small world of poetry with the other, wider creative industries.
Review Quotes:
'"Money is a kind of poetry," said Wallace Stevens, and J. T. Welsch keeps a weather eye on both in the age of "creative" as a job description. Anyone interested in modern poetry will find this valuable study shrewd and illuminating in the way it opens the present moment to reimagining.' -Jeremy Noel-Tod, Senior Lecturer in Literature and Creative Writing, University of East Anglia, UK