If you are like me you have all your poems in a folder: some of them organised into sub folders some not, some of the files are the names of the poems, some not, some of the variations and re-writes are together some not. Are you beginning to see a pattern here?

So when Pascale says,

You need to bring all the poems you think you might publish together

for me (and I suspect you) that's not an insignificant job. Particularly as in my case when I have poems I've already published (and don't want to re-publish) and my way of working is to return to a poem and polish-tweek-change even when it's finished. So as well as being somewhat disorganised, I'm daily reinforcing the first law of thermodynamics, Chaos is increasing.

So her's what I've done because I don't want to take a day off and organise things or have to change the way I work. I've created a new sub-folder with the initials of the working title of my new book (more of that...

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