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How do you do this? There are two ways of executing this job. One, you find a publisher who will take care of all the activities relating to publishing and distributing. Or you could be publishing poetry book yourself. There are lots of differences between the two, though the results might be the same.

If you are approaching another publisher, you need to convince him that your book is worth publishing. If you are an established poet and your name is well known in the market, it is not difficult to get a person for publishing poetry book from your stable. There might even be competition and you might command great respect for your book. But that is not the case with most of us! We are not well known and we might have to go after publishers. There are a huge number of publishers in the English speaking world. You can find publishers interested in publishing poetry book on the internet or on the numerous yellow pages.

Search them out and make a complete list of all the poetry publishers. Even among the people who are publishing poetry book, there are specializations. There are people who do not publish the modern form of poetry. There are also people who only publish modern poetry! You need to classify the nature of poems that you have. Modern or classical; mild or heavy; conceptual take on current happenings or spiritual. Check them out and see whether the people in your list would be publishing poetry book of your kind. This will help you short list the publishers and arrive at a possible list of 5 to 10 of them who will be interested in publishing poetry book of your kind!

Armed with this list, you could talk to every one of them. Most of the publishers insist on a complete manuscript or typed matter before even deciding on the publishing of your book. Therefore, you might have to have the book completed and ready. If you are ready, then fill up their proposal forms and give them the book for their review and decision. Most of the publishers will make their decision with in two to three weeks of your submission whether they are interested in publishing poetry book from you. There are also others who might take as much as two months for the decision. There is not much of a convincing that you might have to do. Most of the convincing is done by your poetry and the way you have organized your book. Many of the publishers offer help to the authors for organizing the book and in editing the book to ensure that there are no errors, etc. But what they cannot help you is in writing poetry itself! Your talent, all said done is yours! There cannot be some one else's help in that.

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