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Submitting to Lit JournalsRough Guide to Submitting Poetry to Literary Journals (by Email)Submitting to Lit Journals
First thing you need is your poems, naturally; these must be fully redrafted to your satisfaction to have much of a chance of getting anywhere in the world of self-respecting mags. Try out some workshops (there are a tonne on the internet, and plenty in the real world too), ask your friends, but most of all just mull them over for yourself until you're happy.
Do not pad your submission with bad poems, thinking the worse ones might get through thanks to your stronger work. This will just result in the whole bunch being rejected, in all probability.
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A Guide to Visual Poetry"Concrete poetry is poetry in which the typographical arrangement of words is as important in conveying the intended effect as the conventional elements of the poem..." ~WikipediaA Guide to Visual Poetry
Visual poetry, also known as concrete poetry, is fun to write because you have colors, textures, and words all at your power to manipulate. You've probably seen visual poetry before, where a poem is written in the shape of what it describes, like "Pyramids":
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John Keats and PoetryKeats, in his Sleep and Poetry, enumerates the aspects of a rather intriguing fancy of his. If, for ten years, he could overwhelm himself in poesy, he would make a certain set of ventures into a set of symbolic worlds; the first of these locales ‘seen in long perspective’ being the realms of Flora (the Roman goddess of the vegetative) and Old Pan (a player of piping music). Here we see exhibited a bona fide paradise, complete with near enough to all the archetypal pleasures conjured within man as paradisiac. Upon first inclination, the paradisiac ensorcels young John, but before long this fruitful setting comes to its own fruition aJohn Keats and Poetry
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Heroicism and Realism: Henry VThe Fashioned Crown: Heroicism and Realism in Henry V An analysis of Act III, Scenes 0-2Heroicism and Realism: Henry V
Shakespeare’s history play Henry V has been criticised widely for being a play whose propagandist nature has compromised the consistency of character and action: ‘what [Shakespeare] produced was a propaganda-play on National Unity: heavily orchestrated for the brass.’ These criticisms are reliant on mimetic assumptions: ‘in the characters and plot construction alike, one must strive for that which is either necessary or probable.’ These inconsistencies are certainly observable, but Shakespeare is famous for
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