{"id":18,"date":"2017-07-19T12:35:41","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T12:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kirstenirving.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/19\/alchemy-why-poetry-publishers-need-to-get-it\/"},"modified":"2022-08-03T22:40:01","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T21:40:01","slug":"alchemy-why-poetry-publishers-need-to-get-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kirstenirving.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/19\/alchemy-why-poetry-publishers-need-to-get-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Alchemy: Why poetry publishers need to get it together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poetry publishing can be fun, rewarding and inspiring, but it can also prove tough, isolating and tiring. With that in mind, I\u2019ve written <a href=\"https:\/\/bookmachine.org\/2017\/07\/18\/alchemy-poetry-publishers-need-get-together\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b>this short piece<\/b><\/a> for the wonderful <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bookmachine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b>BookMachine<\/b><\/a> about the need for poetry presses to collaborate.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"264\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kirstenirving.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/bookmachine-e1596974219311.png\" alt=\"BookMachine logo\" class=\"wp-image-1068\"\/><\/figure><p>It contains such gems as:<\/p><blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cCollaboration is about more than just scoring retweets, high-fives and affiliate sales. It\u2019s about access to new countries and languages, new spaces, new voices, new ways of looking at poetry.\u201c<\/p><\/blockquote><p>So there!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote an article for BookMachine on the value of collaboration over competition in poetry publishing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,108,110],"tags":[120,20,4,19,18,17],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events-readings","category-filthy-commerce","category-sidekick-books","tag-arts-culture","tag-collaboration","tag-poetry","tag-publishing","tag-sidekickbooks","tag-theemmapress","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirstenirving.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirstenirving.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirstenirving.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirstenirving.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirstenirving.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirstenirving.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1152,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirstenirving.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/1152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirstenirving.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirstenirving.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirstenirving.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirstenirving.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}