For the past few years Stephen and Mary have been guiding the firm with the growing success that means it is now, as much as it has ever been, a beacon for independent publishers. Page in his 20 years at the helm of Faber has become its face and seems to see his new role as a very active one. Speaking to Publishing Perspectives in before giving an address at London Book Fair, Page—at that time seeing the lengthening shadow of Brexit ahead—was giving a lot of thought to the role of publishing in the evolving markets it serves.
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His letters are disarmingly candid. Eventually, in , Faber did publish his collected poems; they have not come down to posterity. Eliot spotted the talents of Marianne Moore and Louis MacNeice even though the latter had sent his poems without any covering letter or return address. Eliot plumped for Samuel Beckett. There were also mistakes. Profitable opportunities were lost. Several letters chart the falling out with CP Snow, who was convinced that Faber was not striving sufficiently to sell his books and who patrolled London bookshops in the weeks before Christmas to see if they were stocking copies.
He had the temerity to acquire an agent, who duly pressured the firm even more.
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