~(the poetry)Worm~ Archives

 

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Anon is a new poetry magazine that, like Worm, uses anonymous submission procedures. Worm recommends Anon. Press the button to go there.http://www.blanko.org.uk/anon

 

 

 

~(the poetry)Worm~ FAQs

 

 

everything you wanted to know about the worm, then some

 

 

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What is ~(the poetry) Worm~ ?

 

 

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Worm is a poetry selection that is distributed free via email every month or so.

 

 

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Why is it called ~(the poetry) Worm~ ?

 

 

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Because it propagates through people's address books. Only difference being that this benevolent little chap is forwarded manually, and from choice.

 

 

Q

Isn't that risky: viruses and so forth?

 

 

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Not really. Worm is formatted as HTML we recommend you use up-to-date proprietary security.

 

 

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Well what about copyright?

 

 

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All poets appearing in ~ (the poetry) Worm ~ have granted a limited copyright waiver for electronic replication [only] of that collection as a whole [only]. People who enjoy Worm are asked to forward it, intact, to others who like modern English language poetry

 

 

Q

Doesn't that mean people can steal my poems?

 

 

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Yes. But photocopiers, scanners and OCR software mean that no text is safe from unscrupulous people anyway.

 

 

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Who can submit to Worm?

 

 

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Everybody. Some, but not all, contributors are drawn from The Works mailgroup. To go to Works FAQs press HERE.

 

 

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How is material chosen?

 

 

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Submissions are read by an editorial team of three. The poems are read 'blind' ie: contributor's names are removed. The editorial team is drawn from The Works mail group; its makeup changes for each issue of Worm.

 

 

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What is the house style?

 

 

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There isn't one. To get an idea of the standard and range of poetry please read a few copies from the archive.

 

 

Q

There must be some limitation, surely?

 

 

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Pornography, gratuitous violence, and incitement to racial or religious hatred go in the circular file (bin). Otherwise the only limitation is that imposed by the medium: HTML does not cope well with extremely complex formatting.

 

 

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Where do I send my poems?

 

 

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Please send a couple in to the editor wordbug@btinternet.com

 

 

Q

What about money?

 

 

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Well… No sorry, that's very kind, but we don't accept bribes of any sort.