For those of you that have been living under a rock for the past couple of years, Pinterest is a visual discovery engine for finding ideas like recipes, home and style inspiration, and more. Everyone and their mother has a Pinterest account nowadays. In this article, we show you how you can use Pinterest to gain more traction for your poetry work.
Read MoreA friend of mine who just started out her own lndie press showed me some cool designed slides that read ‘why we don’t publish our books on Amazon.’ It wasn't the first time I came across one of these. And with good reason. I will never ever deny Amazon is evil. It is. It's a destroyer of bookshops, of rainforests, of our ozone layer. I have written many a poem about its CEO Jeff Bezos, whom, together with Elon Musk, I regard as one of the horsemen of the Apocalypse.
But, and don't take out your pitchforks yet, (I would love to have a constructive discussion about this in the comments), isn't avoiding Amazon with your small press nothing more than an absolute fucking privilege not all of us have?
Read MoreIn our previous post, we talked about what a chapbook is and how it can help you gain the attention of readers and publishers alike. Today we will start crafting. So take out your red editing pencil, put your intellectual blue filtered glasses on, and let’s go.
Read MoreYou don’t have to have a vault filled with your poetry in order to be able to print a chapbook. You can create one with as little as thirty poems. In this series of blog posts, we will show you how. We will take you from having a pile of poems on a dusty folder on your computer, to actually having a fully-fledged poetry book in your hands. You will be surprised by what you can do with a ton of free or almost free tools on the World Wide Web. So, let’s get started.
Read MoreI remember setting out to publish my first book of poetry and asking for a quote at this design studio that I loved. When the quote came back I threw up a little on the inside of my mouth.
Read MoreSo you worked on that one poem for weeks, and it is about a subject that is close to your heart. You press post and your palms are sweaty. And there it comes. The stink. It always comes first and is soon followed by that dreaded hairy internet beast: in walks that fucking troll.
Read MoreIn a world choking on social media cleanliness, Golden is a glance at the sordid underbelly which unites humanity - whether humanity likes it or not. It is a knot of painfully-raw honesty and bitter deceit, drenched in a vicious philosophy and hard to swallow half-truths. It oozes anti-poetry at a time when the art form is reduced to self-help and a ceaseless quest for innocence and purity.
Read MoreOur Sarah sent a New York Times article in our poetry group app a couple of days ago. It was a review on a pandemic poetry book. On the cover, it said, ‘America’s poets respond to a pandemic.’ The author of the review, Dwight Garner, complained about a lack of bite in the book. We all thought that was a bit of a no-brainer.
Read MoreWe don't mean to crap on she-poets or two sentence love poems, but just let you know that if you write about politics, or equal rights, or anything else that matters, there is a place for you in this world.
Read MorePeople can hate you just because your face reminds them of the sister they hate or the uncle that locked them in the cupboard as a kid. If the hate you receive isn’t personal, then the same goes for the love. It all comes down to taste and matching your work with the right readers.
Read MoreSo if you haven’t been interviewed for years, you can sit and cry about it or you can reboot your old press and interview yourself.
Read MoreThe internet can be a magical place, and it totally is when it comes to submitting your work to magazines and online publications.
Read MoreSelf Publishing your first book can seem a little daunting at first. Where do you begin? In this article, we share the (free) tools we use to publish our books.
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