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5 ways my poetry brings me an income

And how you can make art and then use it - inadvertently - to sell courses and get new coaching or consultancy clients.

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Annie Ridout
May 08, 2024
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A few years back, I decided to be a poet for a year. I wanted to see if I could be a proper creative and earn an income from it.

I discovered that I can do that (I earned £800 in my first week) but that monetising my poetry directly had a negative impact on my inspiration.

The ideas stopped dropping in; it all started to dry up.

So I went back to launching…

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