Poetry Bookshop
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'''The Poetry Bookshop''', which ran in [[Bloomsbury]], [[London]], from [[1913 in poetry|1913]] to [[1926 in poetry|1926]], was the brainchild of [[Harold 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, including [[Wilfred Wilson Gibson]] and [[Robert 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]] and [[Richard Aldington]] as well as [[Ezra Pound]]'s seminal [[1914 in poetry|1914]] anthology ''Des Imagistes''.
[[Category:British poetry]]
[[Category:Small press publishers]]
[[Category:Media and communications in Camden]]
[[Category:Shops in London]]
[[Category:British bookshops]]
[[Category:20th century in London]]
[[Category:Book publishing companies of the United Kingdom]]