Time for other folk to make my mind up...
I'm working on another collection; it's nowhere near finished yet but I'm trying to decide on a title. It does make some odds to the way you write, and what you might decide to put in or leave out, because it'll say something, hopefully, about the collection's intended focus. I've currently got several possiblities, all with pluses and minuses, and thought I'd try them out on folks. Unfortunately it isn't as easy as just listing them, because all come with baggage like the poem they're from and the cover pic they might generate.
Travelling with Ashes
Travelling with Ashes is a poem title - this poem It was a competition prizewinner, which is good; but it's a poem about death and therefore automatically downbeat as a title. Also I have no cover pic in mind for it. But this collection is going to be fairly haunted by mortality.
Using Glass Like Air
Using Glass Like Air is a phrase from a poem recently published in the magazine Roundyhouse. I like it because it relates to a theme emerging in the collection, of people and things doing what isn't normally in their nature, or in unusual relationships. There could easily be a cover pic for it; it relates to this mural
Wedding Night at the Snow Hotel
Wedding Night at the Snow Hotel is the title of a poem soon to be published in the magazine Horizon. I like it because it's upbeat, but that probably makes it a bit unrepresentative of the collection, though it does fit with the theme of incongruity. Possibles cover pics here or here
Short Days, Long Shadows
Short Days, Long Shadows - title of poem published in Poetry Scotland - closest of all to the tone of the collection but maybe too downbeat for a title, and no pic, though there soon could be.
Dresden Shepherdesses of 1908
Dresden Shepherdesses of 1908 is the title of a poem published in The New Shetlander. Bit peripheral to the theme, though it does touch on incongruity. Also it references the past, which can be a turn-off for some. But it'd be such a cracking title and this'd be the cover pic...What do folk think?
Travelling with Ashes
Travelling with Ashes is a poem title - this poem It was a competition prizewinner, which is good; but it's a poem about death and therefore automatically downbeat as a title. Also I have no cover pic in mind for it. But this collection is going to be fairly haunted by mortality.
Using Glass Like Air
Using Glass Like Air is a phrase from a poem recently published in the magazine Roundyhouse. I like it because it relates to a theme emerging in the collection, of people and things doing what isn't normally in their nature, or in unusual relationships. There could easily be a cover pic for it; it relates to this mural
Wedding Night at the Snow Hotel
Wedding Night at the Snow Hotel is the title of a poem soon to be published in the magazine Horizon. I like it because it's upbeat, but that probably makes it a bit unrepresentative of the collection, though it does fit with the theme of incongruity. Possibles cover pics here or here
Short Days, Long Shadows
Short Days, Long Shadows - title of poem published in Poetry Scotland - closest of all to the tone of the collection but maybe too downbeat for a title, and no pic, though there soon could be.
Dresden Shepherdesses of 1908
Dresden Shepherdesses of 1908 is the title of a poem published in The New Shetlander. Bit peripheral to the theme, though it does touch on incongruity. Also it references the past, which can be a turn-off for some. But it'd be such a cracking title and this'd be the cover pic...What do folk think?
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