Publishing is Slow
November 15, 2009
A little while ago I posted about my first book of poetry, Ex Machina, which was just released. I have a second book of poetry, Clockfire, accepted already by Coach House Books for release in Fall 2010. A third book of poetry, The Words of the Book (co-written with kevin mcpherson eckhoff), is tentatively set to be released from BookThug in 2011. I’ve been publishing poetry here and there, as I am wont to do, and have some poetry in the current issue of The Capilano Review.
From all appearances, I am poetry-publishing dynamo. At least, compared to some. So here’s the dirty little secret: I have written almost no poetry for the last two years. 2008 and 2009 I focused almost exclusively on fiction (although I did write a bit of poetry, and edited some stuff I’d written previously). All the stuff I’m working on right now is fiction, although I have some other poetry projects in process or planned, so it’s not like I’ve abandoned poetry.
The lesson: publishing is slow. It rewards the patient.
Related posts:
- Work, work, work….
- (Calgary) Reading at Stuart Ross book launch
- Hooray for BookThug!
- So This is the New Year
- Jay MillAr Interview
Comments
4 Responses to “Publishing is Slow”
Got something to say?
“it rewards the patient” where he lies etherized upon the table underneath the stars and bars.
I was thinking of “patient” more as Mathers and Jackson utilized the term, in their treatise:
To quote Moey: Oh no you di-int!
the best part of the song is where Eminem claims that the 9-11 attacks were directed against his own record company, but hit the twin towers by mistake.