National Writing Day: Anthony Anaxagorou on Working as a Poet • The Poetry School

As any poet will confess, forging a career in poetry is an extremely long and precarious process. One that involves not only having to constantly work on the craft of writing, but also to be commercially intelligent enough to accept that today poetry tends to need more than just poetry to sell. My journey is a somewhat unorthodox one. I discovered early on, around 2010, that to try and turn a hobby into a paying profession I would need to somehow design my own job role.