ABSTRACT
A very real problem in the teaching of poetry is to know how, physically, the poem can be presented to the Lxlass. A strong central pool should obviate the need to issue poetry, however. If one has half a dozen different anthologies, and each of these contains three poems which seem good to the individual teacher and seem to him likely to please the class, then one has a substantial number of poems that can be presented by means of the printed page. For the first six occasions on which the books are issued they will be new and unrecognized. Some teachers dismember old poetry books and mount individual poems on strong coloured paper. This is initially a good idea, and it certainly makes a change, especially for a younger class. Unfortunately the resulting ‘broadsheets’ are not very durable and quickly become dog-eared.
