This in by email from the poet and scholar Peter Riley on my recent post on Nicholas Moore:
"His copyright is now owned by Cambridge University Library, who hold a large archive of his manuscripts and typescripts. A book of his last poems, Lacrimae Rarum is available from me (through Amazon if people want to) at £4 plus postage -- I think the poems in that are very fine. No one should have to pay £100 for Longings of the Acrobats even if it is out of print; that's not a valid rare-book price, it's the work of an Amazon Market-place Shark, of which there seem to be increasing numbers. They work on the basis of charging enormous amounts for anything which they think is unavailable. There's a poem sequence by him in the latest issue (no.3) of The Cambridge Literary Review -- evidence that there is still some interest."
"His copyright is now owned by Cambridge University Library, who hold a large archive of his manuscripts and typescripts. A book of his last poems, Lacrimae Rarum is available from me (through Amazon if people want to) at £4 plus postage -- I think the poems in that are very fine. No one should have to pay £100 for Longings of the Acrobats even if it is out of print; that's not a valid rare-book price, it's the work of an Amazon Market-place Shark, of which there seem to be increasing numbers. They work on the basis of charging enormous amounts for anything which they think is unavailable. There's a poem sequence by him in the latest issue (no.3) of The Cambridge Literary Review -- evidence that there is still some interest."
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