Poets Unite Worldwide
invite you to take part in the Anthology

'When Love is Bitter'

About the topic:

"Bitter Love" wants to refer to a past love —one that turned out to be bad.. or a "lost love", because of a mistake one did, or even because of tragic events—, but a love that still reverberates in the poet's memories [read more further below*].

To take part in the compilation

Ask for free registration (only the registered poets can submit their poetry):

https://groups.google.com/d/forum/16-bitter-love

After registration, you can submit a poem through the GROUP EMAIL :

16-bitter-love@googlegroups.com

Submission limited to 1 poem

no longer than 30 lines, with no more than 70 characters per line

DEADLINE : SEPTEMBER 30th

Submit only UNPUBLISHED poems!

Do not submit poems already posted at PoemHunter, Fb, and/or other web-sites.

You need to state that the poem is unpublished when you submit it.

Please, note:
1 month after the publication of the book, you will be free to publish the submitted poem wherever you like.

[*] Since I realize the ambiguity of the words "bitter love", here below I supply a few links to my own poems where such a subject can be found, so as to provide anyone with a better understanding of the expression:

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/you-i-19/

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/tenderness-24/

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/nocturnal-snowing/

How this project was born:

I was asked about a project regarding love poems.. although I do not like very much the "love poetry" genre. Of course many beautiful love poems have been written (and not only in the past), but a great deal of 'love poems' are schmaltzy --excessively sentimental-- from my personal point of view..

[and we can add that a lot of anthologies of love poems can be found on the shelves!]. Thus, trying to accept the suggestion, but also to be a bit "original", I opted for... "BITTER LOVE" poetry!

As always, all members are allowed to invite good poets they may know to join the group.

ALL THE UNFIT POEMS WILL BE DISCARDED AFTER DEADLINE, without further notice.

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when you submit your poem through an email, be sure to
use a new (fresh) email -- do not reply to any previous email --
As 'subject', write: " submission by (your name) ".
This way, the Forum will stay in order. Thank you.

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The new entries have to add a BIOGRAPHY no longer than 200 words, written in 1st person, stating clearly:

First name
Family name
Nationality
Country + Year of birth
City/Country where currently living

Note: for publishing and copyright issues, we need to know the real name of all the poets. You can of course add your 'nom de plume' - pen name.

The copyright of the poems will remain in the hands of their Authors, but all Participants will accept to make us free to publish the ebook at no cost and without any other obligation on our part than to publish the poems selected (the acceptance of this point will be attested, by each Participant, by simply sending their poems). To make it clear: by submitting their poems the Authors agree to grant non-exclusive world rights to Fabrizio Frosini and 'Poets Unite Worldwide' for publishing the submitted poems in books, without fee, so long as the Authors are credited --this does not prevent the Authors from publishing their poems anytime, anywhere, by themselves, or from granting others the right to do so.

All participants will receive their own copy of the ebook (file PDF or EPUB).

NO FEES are requested.

A Judging Committee will decide if the poems are worthy to be accepted for publication.

Best regards
Fabrizio Frosini

submission by Abhilasha Bhatt

Abhilasha Bhatt