Marketing
I didn't really have a launch as such. I think anyone who would have come would have got the pamphlet anyway.
- I've read from the pamphlet at Leicester, Cambridge, and Leamington Spa, selling some copies each time.
- I've helped people who've written reviews and essays
- I've done book swaps
- I mention the pamphlet in bios that I send to magazines. I've made use of the network of poets connected to Cambridge Writers.
- I've used a blog to keep the pamphlet in the public eye
My family was amused when it fell out of the top 2 million in the Amazon charts, but it's in the British Library
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and the Poetry Library, which also has some press cuttings.
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The aftermath
My poetic output dwindled around the time of the launch. I took several months to recover. I was hoping that the pamphlet would help me kick on - providing a confidence boost, rather than being a marketing tool. I somehow think it's helped me get more acceptances in magazines but I wanted to keep the momentum going in a bigger way - bigger magazines; a prize or 2. Perhaps I've been distracted by my story book, but I don't think so. Now, in March 2013, I feel I've recovered my spirit of adventure, absorbed new influences, and am ready to embarked on a new phase.
When I was putting a book-length collection together I wondered which poems from "Moving Parts" to include. I decided upon "Iron birds", "In the soul's darkroom", "Paradox", "He understands but doesn't love", "Poetry is the deification of reality", and "Crow’s Nest".
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