Monro and Maurice Browne found the Samurai Press
Poet involved
What happened
With his friend Maurice Browne, Monro founded the Samurai Press, a small idealist imprint inspired by H. G. Wells's A Modern Utopia and associated with Haslemere and the Surrey-Sussex border. The press issued serious, affordable books and early work by writers later classed as Georgians, including W. W. Gibson and John Drinkwater. It was Monro's first sustained experiment in publishing as a social mission.
Literary impact
The Samurai Press taught Monro how to produce books, recruit poets, and treat publication as reform rather than vanity. That apprenticeship made The Poetry Review and the Poetry Bookshop possible and kept a Wellsian, future-facing strain inside his otherwise melancholy verse.
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