ThePoetry Book Society (PBS) was founded in 1953 byT. S. Eliot and friends, including SirBasil Blackwell, "to propagate the art of poetry".^[1] Eric Walter White was secretary from December 1953 until 1971, and was subsequently the society's chairman.^[2] The PBS was chaired byPhilip Larkin in the 1980s.^[3] Each quarter, the Society selects one newly published collection of poetry as its "Choice" title for its members and makes four "Recommendations" for optional purchase. Recently, the Society has expanded its selected titles to promote translated poetry and pamphlets. The Society also publishes the quarterly poetry journal, thePBS Bulletin, and until 2016 administered the annualT. S. Eliot Prize. Following the Poetry Society's instigation of itsNew Generation Poets promotion in 1994, the Poetry Book Society organised two subsequent "Next Generation Poets" promotions in 2004 and 2014.^[4] In 2016, the former Poetry Book Society charity which had managed the book club from 1953 had to be wound up, with its director Chris Holifield appointed as the new director of the T. S. Eliot Prize, and with its book club and company name taken over by book sales agency Inpress Ltd in Newcastle.^[5]

TheBritish Library acquired the Poetry Book Society archive in 1988 and 1996, consisting of organisational papers, correspondence, financial papers, publicity and photographs.^[6]

• New Generation poets (1994)
• Next Generation poets (2004)
• Next Generation poets (2014)

• Eric Walter White (ed.),Poetry Book Society: The First Twenty Five Years, 1954-1978, PBS, 1979.ISBN 978-0950189543
• Jonathan Barker (ed.),Thirty Years of the Poetry Book Society, Hutchinson, 1988.ISBN 978-0091710415
• Clare Brown & Don Paterson (eds.),Don't Ask Me What I Mean: Poets in Their Own Words, Picador, 2003.ISBN 978-0330412827 [compilation from 50 years of PBS Bulletins, 1953-2003]

• Poetry Book Society
• Poetry Book Society records, at theUniversity of Maryland libraries

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