It’s not for everyone but live videos can help to establish your presence on Instagram.

Going live on Instagram may seem daunting but, with practice, it’ll become easier. Doing so displays confidence to your followers. It demonstrates that you are confident in your work and yourself (even if you’re not). It’s important that when you do go live, you have something interesting to say. Quite often, I start watching a live video and the person is just sitting there, likely waiting for more people to join. However, this will only cause drop off – it’s better to jump straight in.

If you want to give it a go, try reading out some of your work live. Or ask other poets to join to share their work. You are not guaranteed to get better engagement from live videos, but it’ll certainly help with your confidence.