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| May 01, 2006 | Colebatch, Hal G.P. | COPYRIGHT 2006 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

ALLPOETRY.COM is a website for poets to post their work and to communicate with one another with comment and criticism. It also has other aspects--for example it makes available many classic poems which people might seek to look up (under the somewhat disparaging generic heading "Oldpoetry") but this first function is the most important for many. Those responsible for it have plainly set it up with commendable intentions, including providing a forum for poets and promoting knowledge and appreciation of poetry.

The number of people involved, from all over the more-or-less English-speaking world, is astonishing. Figures are posted: on September 7, 2005, it had ...

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