I created Poetic Places back in 2015 with the aims of sharing literature in unexpected moments, making something new, and creating something that any organisation with a small budget could replicate with honest and open documentation. I’m delighted to say that the project has done all that and more. Since its launch in May 2016 […]
DCDC is a great conference run annually in Manchester by Research Libraries UK, and I was pleased to have the chance to speak about Poetic Places at the 2016 conference in November.
It’s National Poetry Day, so I thought it’d be a good time to share some updates on Poetic Places and highlight one of the poems featured in the app.
It’s National Poetry Day, so I thought it’d be a good time to share some updates on Poetic Places and highlight one of the poems featured in the app.
Charity By the river In the black wet night as the furtive rain slinks down, Dropping and starting from sleep Alone on a seat A woman crouches. I must go back to her. I want to give her Some money. Her hand slips out of the breast of her gown Asleep. My fingers creep Carefully […]
Time’s sea hath been five years at its slow ebb, Long hours have to and fro let creep the sand, Since I was tangled in thy beauty’s web, And snared by the ungloving of thine hand. And yet I never look on midnight sky, But I behold thine eyes’ well memory’d light; I cannot look […]
It’s taken a little longer than anticipated to put together but the talks from our launch event at the British Library are now available to watch online.
Though we have quite a thorough ‘About’ page, I thought it would be useful to list (in no particular order) the main points of interest in the Poetic Places project. This may be of particular use for others working on this sort of project in the cultural heritage sector.
Poetic Places is, at this point, best described as a pilot project; we’ve been trying something new with quite limited resources in terms of time and money. I’ve tried to avoid scope-creep and keep everything manageable but some aspects of the project have been harder to deal with than anticipated. Aspects such as copyright.
Poetic Places is now available for free on iOS and Android devices!