[New-Poetry] future of poetry magazines

[jforjames at aol.com]

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/05/the_future_of_poetry_magazines.html

The future of poetry magazines
Top publications are often seen as a cliquey insiders' club. But new ones are muscling in - and there's always the internet
May 14, 2008 8:30 AM 
I've usually approached poetry magazines in much the same way as credit card companies choose to approach me. By the time you've mailed a hundred sets of six poems to a third of the 300 magazines in the UK, most of whom you've never read, you're fairly confident of having a couple published somewhere. After all, I have two visas and a mastercard. 


There are, of course, several problems with this approach. Not least that you're quite likely to annoy editors by sending them poetry they would never consider publishing. But I think one of the main reasons amateur poets take this approach is because they despair of getting into the top magazines - magazines that have "friends' piles", that have been around for years, that publish the same old people with their own established magazines. That do "quid pro quo". 


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