I like your poetry. It speaks to me of the mysteries of the universe and our feeble attempts to understand them. But they aren't for everyone, partly because of their subject matter and partly because poetry isn't for everyone. I think you're making a mistake trying to package them for the masses. Package them for people who like poetry, and especially your poetry. Most poetry volumes are slim, but 39 pages is really too slim. The fact that most people chose it from the 3 lengths you suggested indicates maybe they'd like more. Incidentally, even on the 2nd mail, the polls don't work.
Hi Virginia, thanks for the reply. Glad to hear you like my poetry and where I'm headed with it. It seems you are my audience!
I agree with you I shouldn't try to market to the masses, but this time round I am aiming to advertise the stuff to someone rather than leave it to gather dust, so trying to find that someone and figure out what they like
I admit I don't read a great deal of poetry myself, I tend to write it after reading a science article (a lot of my 2015 stuff was based on Futurism articles) and spend most of my reading time on sci-fi or those aforementioned articles - but I like Peter Redgrove, and some Ted Hughes.
I'm glad I asked about length, because one of my ideas in the background was to merge some older collections into larger paperbacks. Branch Density and False Vacuum had a fun easter egg that only worked if they were two separate books, but I had a third book in the series I could peel apart to give their repubs some more length, or abandon the gimmick
I'd like to go for a number that means something.
47 is a prime, and the number of stories in WBTH
55 is part of the fibonacci sequence, could be fun
My tastes are very eclectic. I love TS Elliot for the depth of reference in his images. I love Browning for his emotional depth, Blake for his spiritual undertones, Tennyson for any number of reasons. For my 16th birthday, my mother gave me a book of poetry by Anne Morrow Lindburgh, wife of Charles, and I love her poetry too. I have an old volume of poetry called India's Love Lyrics (forget the author) and some of those really get me where I live. My mother wrote poetry too, and of course I like hers. I also write a bit from time to time, not great poetry but hopefully expressive to some degree.
I love the idea of doing something with the fibonacci sequence. What if you could group them by subject or emotion or inspiration or something? 1 grand opus to start, 3 on the next subject, etc? How far could you take it? Without telling anyone at the start what you're doing, but give them a hint that there's something special about the arrangement. Let them figure it out, but they have to contact you for the answer.
I may borrow from my past self and do a poem that has the syllable counts longer with each line, but this time instead of a simple 1,2,3 use the fibonacci sequence to determine how long each line should be!
The original poem that got longer and longer was a series of insults. I never finished it, but it was fun
I like your poetry. It speaks to me of the mysteries of the universe and our feeble attempts to understand them. But they aren't for everyone, partly because of their subject matter and partly because poetry isn't for everyone. I think you're making a mistake trying to package them for the masses. Package them for people who like poetry, and especially your poetry. Most poetry volumes are slim, but 39 pages is really too slim. The fact that most people chose it from the 3 lengths you suggested indicates maybe they'd like more. Incidentally, even on the 2nd mail, the polls don't work.
Hi Virginia, thanks for the reply. Glad to hear you like my poetry and where I'm headed with it. It seems you are my audience!
I agree with you I shouldn't try to market to the masses, but this time round I am aiming to advertise the stuff to someone rather than leave it to gather dust, so trying to find that someone and figure out what they like
I admit I don't read a great deal of poetry myself, I tend to write it after reading a science article (a lot of my 2015 stuff was based on Futurism articles) and spend most of my reading time on sci-fi or those aforementioned articles - but I like Peter Redgrove, and some Ted Hughes.
I'm glad I asked about length, because one of my ideas in the background was to merge some older collections into larger paperbacks. Branch Density and False Vacuum had a fun easter egg that only worked if they were two separate books, but I had a third book in the series I could peel apart to give their repubs some more length, or abandon the gimmick
I'd like to go for a number that means something.
47 is a prime, and the number of stories in WBTH
55 is part of the fibonacci sequence, could be fun
What other poets do you like?
My tastes are very eclectic. I love TS Elliot for the depth of reference in his images. I love Browning for his emotional depth, Blake for his spiritual undertones, Tennyson for any number of reasons. For my 16th birthday, my mother gave me a book of poetry by Anne Morrow Lindburgh, wife of Charles, and I love her poetry too. I have an old volume of poetry called India's Love Lyrics (forget the author) and some of those really get me where I live. My mother wrote poetry too, and of course I like hers. I also write a bit from time to time, not great poetry but hopefully expressive to some degree.
I love the idea of doing something with the fibonacci sequence. What if you could group them by subject or emotion or inspiration or something? 1 grand opus to start, 3 on the next subject, etc? How far could you take it? Without telling anyone at the start what you're doing, but give them a hint that there's something special about the arrangement. Let them figure it out, but they have to contact you for the answer.
I may borrow from my past self and do a poem that has the syllable counts longer with each line, but this time instead of a simple 1,2,3 use the fibonacci sequence to determine how long each line should be!
The original poem that got longer and longer was a series of insults. I never finished it, but it was fun