Agent reqd. for my poetry books. Posting Proposal.

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Am fervently seeking an agent to represent my poetry books further in the publishing world and fetch me a contract. Poetry is all that I have to live for an infinite births, therefore though it may seem bewilderingly improbable to talk of an agent for poetry; I would yet like to be optimistic. Am posting my entire proposal/poetry books below; seeking the right and most legitimate agent for my works. Apologies if this isn’t the right place for posting, but since Absolute Write is the ultimate resource for Literary Agents/Checks and info. I feel honored posting my poetry books proposal for probable agents scouting in this direction.
Best Wishes
Nikhil Parekh
Poet & Three-Time World Record Holder/Goodwill Ambassador for International Goodwill Treaty for World Peace
Visit me : www.nikhilparekh.com or www.authorsden.com/nikhilparekh




SEEKING AGENT FOR REPRESENTATION OF MY POETRY BOOKS…MY PROPOSAL LETTER/BOOKS…


Am Nikhil Parekh, three-time world record holder poet with the Limca
Book of Records (Ranked only 2nd to Guinness Book of World Records)
for my poetry, from India. Am also a Goodwill Ambassador for the
International Goodwill Treaty for
World Peace (GoodwillTreaty.org). My complete world records in
poetry, books, poems, achievements and various other works can be
sighted at my websites http://www.nikhilparekh.com or
http://www.authorsden.com/nikhilparekh or
http://www.nikhilparekh2.blogspot.com . Thousands of my poems can also
be accessed at these sites.

I have written several poetry books on various global topics like
Peace, Anti Terror, Friendship, Humanity, Environment & Wildlife
Conservation, AIDS, Tsunami, Immortal Love, Blindness, Spiritual
Oneness, Human Rights, Global Brotherhood , The Power of Black and
virtually every conceivable topic under the Sun; which comprise of
thousands of pages of my poetry. By God's grace my poetic style is
inimitably unique evolving into its own distinctive rhyme, form,
structure and metaphorical rhapsody; and hasn't been seen or written
before by anyone on this planet.


My complete poetry books; comprising of nearly 7000 pages of poetry;
divided into 9 exclusive titles can be seen online at:
http://ifiwereabook.com/BookList.aspx?p7=b391effe-d70b-438f-a959-3968be036937
(This is India's premier book listing website which allows authors to
upload their complete books to be seen by Literary Agents/Publishers).
The book titles to these books are :

(1) 1 God (Appx 551 pages)
(2) Love Versus Terrorism (Appx 620 pages)
(3) If you cut a tree; You cut your own mother ( Appx 161 pages)
(4) The Power of Black (Appx 329 pages)
(5) Longest Poem on Earth-Only as Life (Appx 34 pages)
(6) You die; I die (Appx 1637 pages)
(7) Life = Death (Appx 1250 pages)
(8) Hide and Seek (Appx 489 pages)
(9) The Womb (Appx 242 pages)

I have also self-published some of the above books using Lulu.com but
own all rights to them incase contracted by a bigtime publisher.

It'd be fantastic working with the right Literary Agent to represent me in the publishing
industry. Poetry is all that I live and breathe. I cannot perceive of
a life beyond verse; therefore trust you to reach me closer to my
dreams in the publishing world with a contract.

I'm also including a brief bio of mine below. Samples of my poems,
books can of course be had at the sites mentioned above in this message.

Waiting for your kind response and comments and in anticipation of
finding the right literary agent for my works via here! Incase you feel to refer me to someone
else in your contact base please do pass me the details so that I can
get in touch with them directly; this would be unsurpassably
appreciated.

Earnestly,
Nikhil Parekh
Poet & Three-Time World Record Holder with Limca Book of Records India
Goodwill Ambassador for the International GoodWill Treaty for World Peace

For my complete poetry world records, poems, books, works and
achievements please visit me at: http://www.nikhilparekh.com or
http://www.authorsden.com/nikhilparekh or
http://www.nikhilparekh2.blogspot.com

I can be directly reached via email at: [email protected] or
[email protected]







BRIEF BIOGRAPHY-WORLD RECORDS, POEMS, BOOKS, WORKS OF NIKHIL PAREKH

Nikhil Parekh is a three-time World Record Holder poet with the Limca
Book of Records India (Only 2nd in Official World Rankings to
Guinness Book of World Records) for his poetry. These 3 world records
held by Parekh with the Limca Book of Records are for (1) "Being the
1st Indian Poet to be published in a Commonwealth Newsletter for his
poem on AIDS which is: Aids doesnt kill. Your Attitude kills.", (2)
"Being the 1st Indian Poet to win an EPPIE award for best poetry
e-book" and (3) "Writing the most number of letters to and receiving
the most number of replies from World Leaders and World
Organizations". He has composed thousands of poems on several global
topics like :peace, Anti Terror, Friendship, Humanity, Environment &
Wildlife Conservation, AIDS, Tsunami, Blindness, Spiritual Oneness,
Human Rights, Immortal Love, Banning female foeticide etc. Parekh is a
recipient of several major international awards in poetry which
include 'Poet of the Year Award' at the Canadian Federation of Poets.
His poems have been published in the world's leading and acclaimed
magazines and websites including the McGill's English Dictionary of
Rhyme, which is the world's number 1 English Rhyming dictionary.
Parekh's complete world records, poems, books, achievements and
various works can be sighted at his websites www.nikhilparekh.com or
www.authorsden.com/nikhilparekh or www.nikhilparekh2.blogspot.com
 
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Apologies if this isn’t the right place for posting, but since Absolute Write is the ultimate resource for Literary Agents/Checks and info. I feel honored posting my poetry books proposal for probable agents scouting in this direction.

Legitimate agents are likely to have their hands full with queries and manuscripts that people send directly to them, so they're not going to "scout" discussion boards in search of potential clients. You already seem to be aware of the difficulties of getting an agent to represent poetry, so I won't comment further on that, but you've got two strikes against you already. I'd say the way you present yourself ("Poetry is all that I have to live for") is another. I wish you luck, but I think you'll need to change your approach.
 

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To add to what Queen is saying, here at AW there are a few resident agents as it were who answer questions and also just hang out (Nathan Bransford has his own thread, and Andrew Zack answers threads around once a week). In the Nathan Bransford thread, occasionally people ask him if he would represent them. He always replied in the same way, "send me a query". So even though these agents are here, we know they are here at AW, help the people at AW, they still want submissions from members here submitting to them in the normal way. I am afraid there is no easy way of getting an agent, especially for poetry, and while querying agents is a long and tedious process, posting on forums is not only the absolutely wrong way of doing it, it actually hinders your process because it demonstrates a lack of knowledge of the industry, and, to be honest, laziness.
 

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Except for well-known writers or celebrity projects, reputable agents don't typically represent poets--poetry is a small market mostly composed of small publishers, and it's simply not lucrative enough to be worth an agent's time.

Also, as others have said, agents don't scout Internet message boards in search of clients. I'm going to lock this thread and let it sink.

- Victoria
 
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