Auckland Poetry.com

The Word Press editor is useful for writing as it offers only a limited range of options that are not required for entering your poems with the least fuss. In fact it allows you to maintain version, maintain comment, set the status of the work as private, draft and mark it as ready for publication.

Important: changes to publishing rules

You can simply register and contribute your work to the site.

Only post poems you would like to see published on the site, in their ready to be published format.

Contributions can be set to PRIVATE or DRAFT.   

Drafts are considered works for publication, and may be added to the publishing stream.  If you want to withdraw or edit your work, just login and use the Edit link in the header.

Poems set to PRIVATE simply appear on the site but FOR YOU ONLY.   To prevent misunderstanding, poems posted to this site are intended for publication but if you set your poem to PRIVATE, you can temporarily remove it from public view.  The editor will generally leave something set to PRIVATE.  

Please maintain your own copies of your poetry – do not rely on this site to maintain your poem (although we most likely will, we do not pretend to provide archival storage, but our hosting is paid up for several years, so we think it will not be a problem so long as it is marked Private or Publish).

It is up to contributors to edit/remove their own works before an EDITION is announced.  Once an edition is cut, you can not edit the Edition, (but you can edit the works in the database using the links in the Edition).

Word-Press is your friend when it comes to entering your work. But its limiting formating capacity may have difficulty with cut and paste or more sophisticated formats. And most will maintain their poem in another digital form.

For the cut and paste poet the solution is to cut and paste your text direct into the Code tab - then it will honour your line breaks without double spacing.