City Poems will be a living biography of the city of Leeds in Yorkshire, England, that comes alive as readers move through the city with their mobile phones. As they travel around Leeds readers will find themselves moving through a network of Poem Points attached to landmark sites. Poem Point sites will range from football grounds to art galleries and from parks and bars to local community centres, corner shops and busy bus stops. Each Poem Point will have its own keyword, and by sending this keyword as a text message readers will receive a free short SMS text message poem to their mobile phone. The poem will be site specific and relevant to the nature of each Poem Point, so readers might receive a football poem near the football stadium, a nature poem in Roundhay Park or even a grief poem at the cemetery.
(Thanks, Stefan!)
City Poems will be a living biography of the city of Leeds in Yorkshire, England, that comes alive as readers move through the city with their mobile phones. As they travel around Leeds readers will find themselves moving through a network of Poem Points attached to landmark sites. Poem Point sites will range from football [...]
Comments
@ 16:00
How obviously pointed out are these “poem points?” I mean, it becomes useless unless enough people in the city know about it and it’s obviously pointed out.
@ 07:38
Matt, as you can see from that photo, they’re quite conspicuous signs - there wouldn’t be a lot of point hiding them - and we got 10 000 leaflets printed to publicise it in the city. After 10 weeks there had been getting on for 1000 poems downloaded by SMS