sentences:  OUP's authors had included such critically acclaimed poets as Fleur Adcock, Joseph Brodsky, Greg Delanty, Alice Oswald, Craig Raine, and Jo Shapcott.Oxford University Press's decision to abandon its poetry list in November 1998 provoked a literary firestorm in the British media.Though published by Carcanet, the "Oxford Poets" list has retained an element of editorial independence.