Writers' & Artists' Poetry Writers' Handbook

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  • ISBN 9781472988683
  • Publication Date: 15 Sep 2022
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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Poetry is increasingly democratic in its use of different formats, but it can be difficult to know how to navigate the range of options available. In a competitive field, this information is not always easy to access, and many poets make mistakes. This handbook is here to help.

How do you make the finances work? Should you release a pamphlet or a full collection? Which promoters should you work with? How can you get your work reviewed? How do you maintain a public profile if performance isn’t for you? What mentoring and publication options are open for mid-career poets?

The Poetry Writers' Handbook will answer all these questions and more. It provides:
- practical advice on managing income and funding a career
- detailed information on printing and distribution, marketing and publicity, and submission to editors, reviewers and prizes
- up-to-date contacts for funding organisations, prizes, publishers and magazines for poets and their work.

It gives a clear and up-to-date picture of what poets should focus on at different stages in their career.

Sophia Blackwell is a performance and page poet with 15 years’ experience of the live poetry circuit. Having spent years selling home-made CDs, Sophia self-published her first collection of poetry. Her next two collections were published by Bristol-based indie publisher Burning Eye. Her third collection The Other Woman was shortlisted for the Polari Prize. Sophia's poetry has been anthologised by Bloodaxe, Nine Arches and The Emma Press. She lectures at the Oxford University Faculty of Continuing Education on the Creative Writing programme and she is a former Chair of Poetry London.