Places of Poetry is a creative arts projection which wants to inspire the English linguistic communication together with Welsh to write poesy close the places that inspire them. The projection hopes that budding poets volition pivot their poems close English linguistic communication together with Welsh locations straight to the Places of Poetry interactive map.
Users tin flaming add together poems to the map from right away until the fourth Oct 2019. After that appointment novel poems volition non endure able to endure added. The map, however, volition soundless endure available for those who wishing to read all the poems added during the project. Poems tin flaming endure submitted inwards English linguistic communication together with Welsh. All poems volition endure reviewed earlier beingness added to the map inwards gild to ensure that no offensive or plagiarized move is published.
As a cartographer what most attracts me close the Places of Poetry projection isn't together with thus much the poesy only the map itself. The background map used for Places of Poetry is inspired yesteryear William Hole's engraved maps created for Michael Drayton epic verse form Poly-Olbion (1612). The Places of Poetry map is an master copy move only is heavily inspired yesteryear Hole's highly decorative together with iconographic style.
The Place of Poetry map includes novel icons celebrating some of the UK's most good known heritage sites. These include Stonehenge, Ely Cathedral together with fifty-fifty the Oval cricket ground. Other icons on the map (for event for forests together with farming regions) are to a greater extent than lead copies of Hole's iconography. The marine icons of Neptune, sirens together with ships are equally good lead copies from William Hole's engraved maps.
Fans of poesy may equally good endure inspired yesteryear the Poetry Atlas, an interactive map of poems written close locations some the globe.
