tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437685873398520198.post5784364778473294124..comments2024-02-28T10:21:21.000+00:00Comments on visual-poetics: New Directions and Big DecisionsJuliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06090382196937582571noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437685873398520198.post-65487813450209529822018-02-11T14:30:05.116+00:002018-02-11T14:30:05.116+00:00Yes I think you make a good point Ken - and actual...Yes I think you make a good point Ken - and actually quite a substantial proportion of the collection I am working on has already been published in journals (both print and online). Having deadlines from my publisher and from the Arts Council has galvanised me into making it collection shaped - which was when I realised that I have way too much work.<br /><br />Not sure about collections getting shorter - I think it depends on the press. Smaller presses tend to do shorter collections and that may be a cost of the print run issue - an extra five to ten pages does up the print cost quite a bit.<br />Juliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06090382196937582571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6437685873398520198.post-82378471085423428242018-02-11T12:17:10.283+00:002018-02-11T12:17:10.283+00:00Hi Julia, just a thought - maybe it's about le...Hi Julia, just a thought - maybe it's about letting go of seeing everything as affiliated 'collections'/connections, and subbing some of the new stuff to magazines and comps to see what reception it gets in those places? It's all building the body of published stuff which feeds back into how seriously other publishers may consider your work, when perhaps you do have a third (and fourth, and fifth) collection ready?<br /><br />I've been irritated/bemused to discover that since sending a PDF of the typescript to the publisher of my first collection, ot seems to have released a fresh course of half a dozen-a dozen, even - new poems that I think are 'better', more interesting, more 'coherent' as a set. At first i was desperate to lever them into the finished manuscript, now I think I'll keep them for the next stage, and 'trial' them by sending to all the usual places. If they bomb, perhaps I've been wrong, and judged them in the adrenaline surge of 'finishing' what I had. If I'm right, I'll have a new direction to go for, and hopefully some validation for that view (in terms of acceptances/placings), along the way. I think, generally, collection are getting shorter - am I right?<br />Ken Evansnoreply@blogger.com