Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Derek Wyatt (Labour), on Wednesday, 9 December 1998, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 67 members in total.

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OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS POETRY LIST

That this House deplores the decision by Oxford University Press to abandon publishing contemporary poetry; notes the remarkable quality of OUP's poetry list, built up by John Stallworthy and Jacqueline Simms; understands that OUP has not lost money through publishing modern poetry, which in any case represents a minute proportion of OUP's turnover of ??282 million; further notes that OUP subvented the University of Oxford over the last five years to the tune of ??53 million; is astonished that the Delegacy (the academic board) have countenanced such a policy by the Press; and considers this an act of philistinism, with no plausible justification.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

107 

Session

1998-99

Subjects

Publishing Oxford University Press Poetry

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk