How do I get LaTeX to output to the right-hand page only?

Question

I am doing a book of poetry for a friend, using Memoir and the poetry package. She would like the poems to print only on the right-hand pages. I can get poems to begin only on right-hand pages, but any poem that goes onto a second page obviously spills onto a left-hand page. How do I change this?

Answer 1

This solution is also based on package atbegshi. If an "even" poem page would be printed, then an empty page is output before. The tricky part is fixing the page counters on the page and in the .log file.

\documentclass{memoir}
\usepackage{atbegshi}
\usepackage{zref-abspage}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\newif\ifoddpoem
\newif\ifoddpoemPageInc
\AtBeginShipout{%
  \ifoddpoem
    \ifodd\value{abspage}%
      \stepcounter{page}%
      \global\oddpoemPageInctrue
      \advance\value{page} by -1\relax
    \else
      \stepcounter{abspage}%
      \global\oddpoemPageIncfalse
      \addtocounter{page}{-1}%
      \AtBeginShipoutOriginalShipout\null
      \stepcounter{page}%
    \fi
  \fi
}
\newenvironment{oddpoem}{%
  \cleardoublepage
  \oddpoemtrue
}{%
  \clearpage
  \ifoddpoemPageInc
    \addtocounter{page}{-1}%
    \global\oddpoemPageIncfalse
  \fi
}

\begin{document}

\section{Text before poem}
\lipsum[1-4]

\begin{oddpoem}
  \section{Short poem}
  \lipsum[5-8]
\end{oddpoem} 

\section{Text after short poem}
\lipsum[9-12]

\begin{oddpoem}
  \section{Long poem}
  \lipsum[13-18]
  \lipsum[22-24]
\end{oddpoem}   

\section{Text after long poem}
\lipsum[25-29]

\end{document}