Being Creatively Selective: Editorial Approach in Assembling a Poetry Collection

Philip Rowland

Japan Writers Conference 2019

JWC: John Gribble

Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo

This presentation draws on my experience of editing poetry collections to describe and discuss questions of editorial approach and decision-making. Several examples, chosen to highlight issues of poem-selection and arrangement, are considered, in hopes of helping those wishing to edit their own poetry book projects more effectively.