{"footnote":"\u003Cp\u003E  A few years ago, submissions for the National Poetry Competition outnumbered the sales of any single new volume of poetry in Britain. That fact on its own would indicate that there are more people  writing poetry in this country than are reading it, if \u0026lsquo;reading poetry\u0026rsquo; can be understood (as it used to be) as buying the work of published poets.\u003C\/p\u003E\n","audio":[],"video":[]}