Elizabeth Eiler5h ago

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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Show threadjake4h ago
@ElizabethEiler i'm having these thoughts too. and coming to, for at least now, two different plans. there are those poems whose connection is simply the time of my life when they were written, and i think of these and more of a generic collection. and then i have separate sets where they are collected by theme (or in one case, form)

my first collection was all over the place but where i tried to pay attention was the flow of the poems.
Show threadElizabeth Eiler
@jake Thanks - we’ve been thinking along similar lines. 😊
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