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To theme or not to theme (for a book)

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I have been working on my book and have spoken to a few different people and although I only have about 50 pieces drafted so far (I hope for around 150), I asked if it was necessary to have a theme. If you have checked out my work on IG, all of my pieces are different. Here are my questions:

Is a book theme necessary? I've seen so many books that are "love" poems or focus on one specific topic. My pieces vary from love (happy), love (doomed), grief, and the others are pure randomness. I have a piece in there about the stars falling from the sky and one about missing the sunset at Huntington Beach, and another about cold coffee (so yes, quite random).
Chapters. Again, this would be a tough one for me for some of them.
Poems from IG. I have some pieces I would like to pull from my IG page for the book, but don't know if others have done this. If you have, do you archive the poem?

Any insights will be so helpful to me. I am taking a bit of a break from posting on IG to focus on the book. Thank you so much!

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Comments (3)

Sep 08, 2021

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Hey Nav,awesome seeing you back from time to time.

I think in regards to this,depends on what you think is best for poetry book.

If you like cohesion,which is what I decided for my book,least I think its cohesive,go with a theme.

If you like to be different,go with chapters.

Unsure about IG,if you can though,go for it.

Really comes down to what are the experiences you had that can be encapsulated in one book.

A mountain or a river?????

Doesn't matter exactly how you write it,as long as it's your experiences on a page and something poetry community can enjoy and not enjoy,depending on who you ask that is.

Congratulations on this endeavor.

Looking forward to hearing about your poetry book journey.