TY - JOUR
T1 - On novelists and poets
AU - Indyk, Ivor
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - As a publisher, I am continually aware of the difference in economies between poetry and prose. Poetry does not depend on bookshops for sales; it does not require agents, publicists, rights managers – or even editors, in a substantial way, because an editor who is not a poet cannot interfere successfully with a poem to anything like the extent an editor who is not a writer is expected to do with fiction.
AB - As a publisher, I am continually aware of the difference in economies between poetry and prose. Poetry does not depend on bookshops for sales; it does not require agents, publicists, rights managers – or even editors, in a substantial way, because an editor who is not a poet cannot interfere successfully with a poem to anything like the extent an editor who is not a writer is expected to do with fiction.
KW - novelists
KW - poets
UR - http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/uws:35609
UR - http://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/20-march-2015-ivor-indyk-on-novelists-and-poets/
M3 - Article
SN - 2201-8735
VL - 42083
JO - Sydney Review of Books
JF - Sydney Review of Books
ER -