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Well, I got a letter confirmation today that a poem i'd entered into a contest has won (not, luck-of-the-draw 'won', but read-over-and-hand-picked 'won', which honestly provides a greater feeling) one of the few places in an anthology that'll be published on the 31st of January next year!

Does that make me a published poet now? Will I have all the Librarians swooning as I pass in my ruffled dress shirt and leggings, with a swan's-feather quill in one hand, and a tankard of ale in the other?

I imagine it would be the same as having your name in the ending credits of a movie, and being listed as someone who wasn't an actor you get to see in the movie. Soooo yeah unless you start a roll and keep churning out enough poems to gain attention the farthest your achievement will go is idle conversation topics.

Who is publishing your work?

Forward Poetry

EDIT: For clarity, i'm not expecting to be a poetry sensation. It was only a bit of fun to start off with and to be honest, i'm not overly bothered (one poem, yippee...) - The last pragraph of my OP was supposed to illustrate how seriously i'm not taking it

I think you should milk it to the max. Spend the rest of yor life writing the follow up, giving withering and scathing asides to others who are trying to write poetry.

Anger feminists by stating that Sylvia Plath is a load of old tosh and that she couldn't hold a candle to Ted Hughes.

Well done btw!

It'd be a richer-tasting dessert had I not decided to Google the publisher and found out how the books they try and flog you are essentially overpriced garbage that nobody else but the winners are expected to buy for an exorbitant price.

But anyway, i'll savour the moment whilst it lasts, and then start a tempest of rushed, half-arsed poems, the likes of which the world is currently rather used to!

It's okay. A lot poetry collections and their publishers require you to pay for your entry for submission.

Great news. Gratz mate!

Hows it go? I am form a family of poets myself, my favorite has to be: (First stanza only)

"In Xanadu did Kublai Khan a stately pleasure dome decree.
where Alph, the sacred river ran, in caverns measureless to man, down to a sunless sea"

Just because the poem is in an anthology that may be mostly garbage doesn't mean the librarians won't swoon after you. Go to America, use your god given british accent and pick up all the american librarians you want.

ineptus astartes wrote:Hows it go? I am form a family of poets myself, my favorite has to be: (First stanza only)

"In Xanadu did Kublai Khan a stately pleasure dome decree.
where Alph, the sacred river ran, in caverns measureless to man, down to a sunless sea"

A PLAAAAACE, WHERE NOBODY DAAARES TO GOOOOO

Well done!

BTW, what is the name of the Anthology?

Mr. Burning wrote:It's okay. A lot poetry collections and their publishers require you to pay for your entry for submission.

I guess so, they do have to get their money back somehow.

mattyrm wrote: Great news. Gratz mate!

Thanks

halonachos wrote:Just because the poem is in an anthology that may be mostly garbage doesn't mean the librarians won't swoon after you. Go to America, use your god given british accent and pick up all the american librarians you want.

Well, if you don't want them , i'd be happy to take them off your hands

RaptorsTallon wrote:Well done!

BTW, what is the name of the Anthology?

Thanks

It's called 'A Symphony of Life: A Collection of Poetry'; or it will be when it's published

Found what I believe to be the pre-order link for Amazon here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Symphony-Life-Collection-Poetry/dp/0857397273/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1318519185&sr=8-1, at the not-so-great discounted price I got the chance to buy it at, so i'll be buying it from Amazon if I want it, just for the free P&P.

Avatar 720 wrote:

halonachos wrote:Just because the poem is in an anthology that may be mostly garbage doesn't mean the librarians won't swoon after you. Go to America, use your god given british accent and pick up all the american librarians you want.

Well, if you don't want them , i'd be happy to take them off your hands

Next thing we know the Republican party will be complaining about illegal British immigrants taking all of the American librarians and then the Democratic party will be defending them by saying that the illegal British immigrants are only taking the librarians the American people don't want.

Mr. Burning wrote:
Anger feminists by stating that Sylvia Plath is a load of old tosh and that she couldn't hold a candle to Ted Hughes.

Come to think of it you're right, her poems arehalf baked.

Medium of Death wrote:

Mr. Burning wrote:
Anger feminists by stating that Sylvia Plath is a load of old tosh and that she couldn't hold a candle to Ted Hughes.

Come to think of it you're right, her poems arehalf baked.

I wondered when someone would cook something up.