✍️🎤📱 Send us your poems about your STREET! and we will publish them into an app for your local community to hear! Whether a total beginner or a seasoned poet, we want to hear from you! 😎
📍🏫🔉 Bristol poet Ralph Hoyte is asking people to submit poems they have written and then recorded themselves, for an innovative, digital audio project with Bristol Libraries. The recorded poems will be uploaded to an app and placed in a 'soundpool’ right outside your chosen local library (see list below) for all to hear. When people download the app and walk into the soundpool, they will hear YOUR poem read by YOU on the SPOT (triggered by your phone’s GPS).
❗Rules and Further Information:
Poems must be on the theme of STREET! and what STREET! means to you and where you live. It’s your street, your locality – write a poem about life on and around your street. Poems must be recorded - they should not be longer than 3-4 minutes when read. Each recording must start with THE TITLE OF THE POEM followed by YOUR NAME (if someone else reads your poem, follow this also with THEIR NAME), then the actual poem. Poems which don’t do this can’t be accepted.
For the first round, deadline for submission is 15th September. Email the recording and written copy to library.ideas@bristol.gov.uk
The project is taking place at the following Bristol libraries: Avonmouth, Bishopston, Bishopsworth, Central, Clifton, Filwood, Fishponds, Henleaze, Junction 3, Southmead, St George, St Pauls.
📧 Any questions, please email library.ideas@bristol.gov.uk
💖 Looking forward to hearing your work!
