Poetry to Publish

[y2kroja]

I have a collection of over 100 poems which I started writing about 15 years ago. They are quite nice, but I need advice on how I can get them publish here in London. Do you know of any good publisher who will be interested in an 'unknown' poet?

[Peter Pedant]

yes - you pay...

it is called vanity publishing.

Much easier than previously although both Swinburne Fitzgerald and the Bronte sisters paid some of their publishing costs.....and their efforts initally bombed. This makes their first editions particularly sought after. I think Fitzgerald only sold 16 copies of his first edn of Omar Kayam. Good luck.

[Peter Pedant]

No you dont need to pay appaarently

article in todays Sunday times

Lulu.com - I havent accessed it. evanity publishing apparently...

Good Luck

[pega]

an advert in local paper for poems the address that was

given is United Press Ltd  Admail 3735 London 

EC1B   IJB.  It was for poems for national competition and to be sent by 31st aug. you can get poems published I've had about 20 in different books but not for

profit but at least they are published you can buy the book they appear in I brought a few books I suppose that's how they survive but you don't have to pay  can look in writers handbook for addresses and details but as suggested you can pay to have a book published and could work.

[Mistopheles]

If you want to have them published properly (i.e. not vanity publishing), DON'T send them to a publishers - they won't even look at them. You have to get an agent first, who will then contact publishers for you. Publishers do NOT read unsolicited work - usually they don't even bother to open them.

Get the latest Artist and Writers Yearbook (usually in the local library), and send some off to a load of agents listed in there. Be prepared for a lot of rejections, but keep at it. I know what I'm talking about honest - I used to be in the trade!

[Test4]

Hi there,

I've tried publishing some of my poems and the best way I found was to send it to newspapers ie magazines, however it took me a long time.I started sending letters in 1994 and was first publish in a french/us magazine in spring 2000....

...I must have sent approx 400 letters...or more ?

I took the adresses from The Artist and Writer year book - AC & Black publishing (you'll find it in local bookstores + not too expensive, approx 11.00�).

It's full of addresses (for more than the Uk) and advise.

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Now I'm much more into publishing my drawing and illustrations (I used the same way as for my poems and had a few publications in the States).

Most recently I''ve tried Lulu.com and did a calendar.

Personaly I find the idea and the site itself very usful indeed + not expensive especially as I'm using full colour prints for my drawings/watercolors.

The idea of finding an agent is I think good as wel (I might try it myself); in anycase the Artist and Writers yearbook is excellent resourse. In the 2001 (?) edition was an foreword by JK Rowlling (Harry Potter's "mum") an mooving statement of how she (very succesfully) use the book. As far as I can remember she wrote that "every unpublished writer should have a one (copy)"; I think that too.

Good luck + don't give up, it's worth trying.

Sabine