How many poems would you need to publish a book .These are funny ,short light reading?

It depends on the length of the poems. I once had a very small book of poems by a very old poet called John Light, there were only about 20 poems in the book.





It is not the quantity that matters, but the quality. If people like your poetry they will buy it.
How many poems would you need to publish a book .These are funny ,short light reading?
if there's only a few a publisher might want to put them in as part of a mixed anthology as the retail price will need to offset the publishing costs.....but if you wanted to issue your own pamphlet anthology then you can do it on a budget yourself and get your name known so that you can, at a later date, interest a publisher in a more extensive collection (this could include these earlier works)
How many poems would you need to publish a book .These are funny ,short light reading?
I think of a book I once traced for a question here-- funny, short, light poems --by Odgen Nash... Then that I typed every title in that book for the asker, 'cause that's what was wanted: about 50 +, as I recall.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ogden_nash


I went to this site, used the link 'Please search for Ogden Nash at...'





And once I was at Wiki, used the second link down in "External Links"-- 'A Tribute to...'


...To count a bit over 30 poems offered at that link, which is quite a few, since whoever has the copyright on them has taken much of his work offine.





Nash is, indeed, a 'king' of 'light verse,' and you might do well to read about him. He mostly published in magazines, at least at first, then books, slim and fantastically good.





Slim books of poetry are not at all unsual, so I'd say, with other info (dedication, acknowledgements if any) and putting one poem per page, you should try for 50 at the least.


100 would be better.





Best of luck. Go for it properly, like you learn in The Writer's Market... read the front sections of that several times (if you haven't) before you do anything else.


Fun. Thx.