Navigating Poetry Submissions

Why every rejection is sediment — and how to survive the dark water between poems. The professional life of a poet is a study in surfaces. When you browse the spine-out collections in a quiet bookshop or trace the cover of a literary magazine on a coffee table, you are observing only the light that has been caught and held. Beneath it lies the sediment — the years of silence, the rejection slips that pile like drifted snow, the lightless cold of the submission queue. For ever

Alden Carrow - British Counties In Verse. As a poet, the journey from penning down my thoughts to finally getting ready to publish a collection of poems has been a thrilling experience. Today, I’m over the moon to share some exciting news! I've submitted my manuscript along with the final book cover design to Amazon, and now I'm eagerly waiting for approval to publish on August 2nd. In this blog post, I want to take you through this exhilarating process, sharing my emotions,