
The publishing house Bertelsmann used books as well as monitors to express its activites graphically at the International Book Fair. PHOTO - REUTERS
LONDON- British Poets logging onto their favourite Web site to celebrate World Poetry Day found Viagra, not verse, on Thursday. In a strange quirk of cyber-squatting, a century-old bastion of British verse, the Poetry Society, has lost its site to an Internet e-tailer selling everything from poker to personal finance. Ultimate Search Inc, which inhabits lapsed domains, is also selling Viagra and testosterone on its new property, www.poetrysoc.com. „The Society paid money last year to renew the domain name, but something went wrong somewhere down the line and the domain name lapsed,“ Poetry Society lawyer Jane Mutimear said. Poetry Society director Christina Patterson said the society was rushing out a new site at www.poetrysociety.org.uk. But savage sonnets about Internet e-tailers will have to wait. „Composing poems isn‘t my top priority right now,“ Patterson said. „I don‘t know any poems about the Internet, but if I did, they‘d be up there.“ Reuters