Alan Sturgess TWIt Booster

Joined: 21 Jun 2005 Posts: 613 Location: Cheshire, UK
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Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2021 5:10 pm Post subject: Print, e-book or Youtube? |
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The 'Poetry' section in 'Write Idea' seems to have very few participants so I thought I'd post this query into the general forum.
After spending rather longer than I anticipated editing a considerable archive of 27+ years' worth of poems written for children, and after looking at them as objectively as possible, I came to the conclusion that a good few are certainly as good as many I see being published. Perhaps it's because I was a teacher that I wrote a lot of poems for use with or by pupils which had several layers for them to 'excavate'. (The word I used with them instead of 'interpret'). In my opinion, that gives a lot of my work something slightly different.
At my age, I've left it too late to go looking for an agent . . . initial research suggested that agents with interest in poetry for children are as rare as the proverbial hen's gnashers. I've just set up a new Youtube channel for uploading readings and performances but I'll wait until internet fibre is connected in a month or so.
My general query is this . . . has anyone found a worthwhile way to get their work considered for publication? I was thinking of Lulu but a couple of friends have had VERY bad experiences there and I have no great interest in self-publication, although maybe an e-book could be an interesting possibility.
Meanwhile, I'll learn to use a green screen and then start recording some poems for uploading to Youtube in the coming months.
(Cheers to everyone here - I was away for a very long time because my wife endured 10 years of chemo, so I simply shoved most things in life to one side.) _________________ Poetry for children should challenge as well as entertain. |
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