The bookshops that impress me have "Short stories" sections. They're mostly in Dublin, though the Amnesty International shop in Cambridge and Saffron Walden's Oxfam shop have story sections. The Oxfam bookshop in Islington doesn't have one, though it has a section for "Literary Magazines" - Acumen, Pennine Platform, etc.
Blackwells in Oxford has a "poetry pamphlets" section.
"Poetry" shelves often have an "Anthologies" section. The Islington bookshop has that, and also has a section I've never seen before - "Contemporary Poetry" - which includes pamphlets and many slim volumes. It makes sense to display the spineless pamphlets in boxes - it makes browsing easier, like fingering through LPs in the olden days.
My story collection "By All Means" (ISBN 978-0-9570984-9-7), published by Nine Arches Press, is on sale from
My poetry pamphlet "Moving Parts" (ISBN 978-1-905939-59-6) is out now, on sale at the
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