Six
Poets
Six poets drinking
wine
in Jimmy
Watson’s
discuss
poetics
submission
strategies
other poets’ latest
books
the likelihood of
acceptance
by Publisher
X
the ideal amount of
time
between
composition
and
submission
whether one can
publish
too much too soon or
too often
(one labels it “the
Kinsella effect”)
stimuli and
imagination
revision and editing
techniques
the need for varied
experience
John Leonard’s unerring
eye
and who will be
read
fifty years from
now
- Nathanael O'Reilly 2012
Nathanael O’Reilly was born in Warrnambool and raised in Ballarat, Brisbane and
Shepparton. He now resides in Texas. He is the author of two chapbooks,
Suburban Exile: American
Poems (2011) and Symptoms of Homesickness (2010), both
published by Picaro Press, and a recipient of an Emerging Writers Grant from the
Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts. His poetry has been
published in journals around the world, including Antipodes, Cordite
Poetry Review, LiNQ, Blackmail Press, Harvest,
Transnational Literature, Mascara Literary Review,
Windmills, Postcolonial Text, Prosopisia, Page
Seventeen, Red River Review, Correspondances Oceaniennes and
Social Alternatives.
2 comments:
I wasn't there, but after nineteen lines I remember it well.
Nice work, Nathanael.
Spot on! Now I wish I knew 5 other poets well enough to drink with them.
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