tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2422112066790651313.post315546747304238860..comments2024-03-14T08:34:34.769+00:00Comments on litrefs: Visibility in the literary sceneTim Lovehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00578925224900533603noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2422112066790651313.post-42235021153291473042020-05-04T12:28:36.478+01:002020-05-04T12:28:36.478+01:00Many poets surely do ok without being their own PR...Many poets surely do ok without being their own PR agent to ensure that their name keeps popping up. And not all poets have eventful lives to write about. If you just produce poetry you can get by, but it's a struggle. It helps to have fellow sufferers, pupils, followers, and people entering competitions you judge - captive audiences.<br /> <br />Poetry groups vary a lot in tone. Round these parts we have Uni ones, Performance ones, Poetry Society ones, etc. A poet who has the social skills to deal with uni people might well struggle at other meetings. And it seems to me that you have to become a regular before people open up. I don't have the time to try them all out. Besides, I've only written one poem this year.Tim Lovehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00578925224900533603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2422112066790651313.post-58498984795526891182020-05-03T06:59:33.624+01:002020-05-03T06:59:33.624+01:00Ah yes, la scène. Never been able to break into th...Ah yes, <i>la scène</i>. Never been able to break into that. Never quite understood it. I had hoped that putting myself out there online—which I did something rotten at the start—might lead to me being adopted by the cool kids but it was harder than I expected. And I expected it to be hard. It doesn’t help that I’m not exactly the pushy sort; hell, I’m barely nudgy. I have tried to make inroads in the real world but never found the groups I approached exactly welcoming. There was a… a snootiness about them. I kind of thought when I finally met my peers I’d be… maybe not embraced but at least slapped on the back: “So you finally made it, you old goat. What took you so long?” But, no. Now it’s too late for that. They say man is a social animal and I’m sure on a basic level that’s true. I do suspect, however, more people lack social skills than excel in them and writers head that list. Jim Murdochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786388638146471193noreply@blogger.com