The problem with poetry 17/11/08
This morning my first issue of Voiceworks magazine went to print. Due to not managing my time well enough, and learning the ropes of a new publication, I was up until 4am getting it ready for collection this morning and came across a hurdle I had not anticipated. Poetry.
Laying out pages containing poetry proved to be a lot trickier than I had expected. I had designed a system and styles which I thought would work across all content of the magazine, whether it be a fictional pieces or part of the columns, and could work without the heavy use of graphics or supporting images.
Unfortunately poems did not fit into this system as well as I had hoped. Instead of being a piece of copy to be moulded and crafted to fit on a page, a poem already has its form and needs to be placed ‘as is’ onto the page. As I found out, this tends to cause a problem with space and the relationship with other elements. I still managed the get everything done, but I think this will need revision before I start on the next issue, and I’ll need to do a bit or research on laying out poetry.
I’d be interested to hear if anyone else has come across a similar situation.
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