Self publishing?

[Aish]

Such a wonderful dream... but having been there, done that, in a manner of speaking at least, that way lies nothing but heartache and poverty. Even more poverty than just writing poetry will leave you in

There must be a way though. Publishers are not prepared to take risks on poetry, but poetry desperately needs risk takers to drag it out from the depths of mediocrity and beyond... so if anyone has an amazingly brilliant idea, I'm desperate to hear it. There are so many deserving poets creating fascinating works out there, languishing in obscurity.

Certain cities around the world demand that any new developments allocate a percentage of their budget for public art -- sculptures and the like. I wonder how to get this pseudo-patronage idea to work for poetry and other neglected art forms?

We need a movement. A screaming minority who won't take no for an answer. A niche.

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The moral of all this is: how much could any of us, hand on heart, say was ready for market --any market? If there is no market, perhaps we more and more satisfy ourselves, and by so doing , make what we write even less marketable?

Ho

I fully cop to writing to scratch my own itch.