set out to produce poetry in paperback at affordable prices, starting with three titles: Selected Poems by James Reeves, A Stained Glass Raree Show by Libby Houston and The Saipan Elegy by James Grady. Each cost five shillings and had a ridiculously ambitious print run of 5,000 copies. The idea for the company had been born at a party two years earlier, where I first met Clive Allison, who has died of heart failure aged 67.
We made good the plan after we graduated from university, unfettered by the reality of having neither money nor distribution.
from The Guardian: Clive Allison obituary
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