Happy World Poetry Day! In May 1881, Oscar Wilde contacted a publisher named David Bogue announcing he was “anxious to publish a volume of poems immediately, and should like to enter into a treaty with your house about it. ... Possibly my name requires no introduction.” 750 copies of Oscar’s first anthology of poetry - titled simply ‘Poems’ - were duly published on handmade Dutch paper in June 1881. . . . . . @worldpoetryday #worldpoetryday #worldpoetryday2019 #oscarwilde #ruperteverett #oscarwildepoems #oscarwildepoetry #oscarwildepoet #irishwriter #irishlegend #poetry #poems #poem #davidbogue