Poets, how do you organize material for publication? Other than random single poems in print, I published on Kindle 1 collection based on a theme. I’m going to pull it and reissue (different publisher) as part of a book I’m calling 3 “collections” (themes) in 1 volume (still writing it).

Much of my work is on different subjects, emotions, thoughts. Do you publish collections without a unifying theme? I’m all about being organized but wonder what a collection of unrelated poems could be like. It will be a joy to write again without a thematic group in mind!

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@ElizabethEiler My book of sonnets was organized into a rough thematic arc. Poems went next to other poems with similar subject matter, but the general theme shifted over the course of a few poems at a time. So a set of poems about falling in love could turn into a set of poems about being obsessed, which could morph into poems about unrequited love, etc...

I def recommend that sort of cluster-of-clusters approach, it came out feeling much more thematically composed than I thought it would.

@seanpatrickphd Sounds wonderful and organic. Thanks!