Let's not forget that having poems published in the Speccie or the Oldie means that tens of thousands of people actually read them (assuming they don't just skip that bit of the magazine.) I was very tickled to get on a train a few years ago and see that the chap next to me was reading a poem of mine in the Spectator. I think he may even have chuckled at one point. That was far more thrilling than the thirty quid.
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