Poetry Forum

G'day,
is it necessary for poems to be deleted if they are to be published from a thread, or is it OK if they stay on view?
Regards, C.

the poet normally asks us to move the thread to Finishing Touch, which isn't viewable by the public.

Ros

Thank you, Ros, for your reply. I see my query was too general, what I wanted to know was whether deletion is a matter of etiqette or manners, or is there a legal necessity for copyright or other reason. Sorry not to have been clearer in my original q.
Regards, C.

I suppose that would depend on whether you had a contract with the publisher. Often publishers of mags want 'unpublished' work - so not anything they can find on the web, so moving it to FT solves that problem. The copyright remains with the author. I don't think that there's any legal reason to remove anything otherwise. (But I'm not an expert.)

Ros

Thanks, Ros.
C.