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THE WORLD'S LONGEST POEM

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*This will not be published, it is so we can contact you if there is a problem with your contribution (see “Legal Stuff” below).

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The Legal Stuff

Sorry, but before you can submit your contribution, you have to read these boring legal bits, and tick the box above, to agree to them. Yes, we know, we know... but ...

(If you don't understand any of this stuff, please ask a parent or teacher to explain it to you.)

  1. By submitting your material you are relinquishing the copyright, this means that what you have written is for amusement only and there will be no payment to you for it.

  2. The material you send may be used by us for publicity purposes to attract more visitors to this site in the attempt to create the world's longest collaborative poem.

  3. Nothing obscene, racist, inflammatory, or libellous will be published. All contributions will be read my a moderator before they are uploaded, so will not appear immediately. If you want to know more about the “obscene” guideline, anything worse than the normal good clean dirty humour of the Potty Poets series is likely to be modded.

  1. No submissions that attack the work of other submitters will be posted.

  1. No contributions which promote or condone bullying, illegal activity, violence or terrorism of any sort will be published.

  2. If we do "bounce" a submission, we will email you back and tell you why, provided we have an email address for you. Then you can decide if you want to re-write your contribution, and have another go.

  1. The moderators' decision is final, and no further correspondence will be entered into.

  1. If you do submit your email address there will also be an implicit “opt out” for the purposes of the data protection act 1998. In other words, if you give us your email address, it will only be used for the purposes of contacting you about this site, it will not be displayed, shared, swopped or sold, it will be held securely, and only for as long as necessary, in line with the seven data protection principles as set out in the act.

  1. In order to preserve the integrity of the poem and any narrative thread, all contributions must be in English. Yes, we know that the original bards were all Celts and that Gawain was written in middle english, but if we are going for an “official” world record, this is likely to be one of the conditions. If it's in a patchwork of different languages, people could argue that it isn't all one continuous poem.

  1. Finally, if you are under the age of 12, we ask you to confirm that you have the permission of a parent, guardian, or other responsible adult in loco parentis to submit your material to this site.

About Gez

The Poem

Contributors' Acknowledgements