Volume of Poe needs a note for scholarly readers (8)
I believe the answer is:
literati
'scholarly readers' is the definition.
(literary people)
'volume of poe needs a note' is the wordplay.
'volume of poe' becomes 'liter' (US spelling of litre, ie 'for Poe', US writer).
'needs' says to put letters next to each other.
'note' becomes 'ti' (musical note as in do re mi fa so la ti).
'liter'+'a'+'ti'='LITERATI'
'for' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for literati that I've seen before include "Well-read types" , "Men and women of letters" , "Educated book readers" , "group of learned people" , "scholars" .)