Poetry Month is coming to a close, but there will be opportunities to share you poetry year round.. Currently, I am curating a project for Marble Arch Caves UNESCO Global Geopark where we will be mapping sites across the geopark poem by poem. This digital poetry map is being funded by the Geological Survey Ireland’s Geoheritage Fund. Poets will have their text on the poetry, as well as recited by professional actors so that there is both a visual and aural experience of the poem. Poets will also receive a payment for the reproduction rights to the chosen poems. Five established poets have been commissioned to create new work for the digital poetry map and a dozen new and emerging poets will have their work published alongside these writers. The commissioned poets will be officially announced on Poetry Day Ireland this 29th April.
So can you write a site specific poem that includes a geoheritage theme?
To get full details, as well as support material from the Geopark, email GeoparkPoetryMap@gmail.com.
The digital poetry map will go live on the MAC Geopark’s website this October 2021. Will one of your poems be highlighting one of these sites pictured above?
This is so exciting! Congratulations on your work for it!
LikeLike
Hi Bee, just checking a few things with you. Closing date is May 31? Any particular length of poem preferable? Myth etc not advised, stick to more factual, descriptive style?
LikeLiked by 1 person
Poems of all lengths are welcome. The deadline is 31st May, 2021 to send in according to the guidelines that are emailed from GeoparkPoetryMap@gmail.com.
LikeLike