Submissions for the first round are now closed – a new round, with a workshop attached – is planned for February 2026.
STREET! uses your phone’s GPS to trigger poetry. ‘A soundpool’ is drawn on a map and placed over any location desired on that map (such as over the front of the Central Library). 3 or 4 recorded poems are ‘seeded’ into this soundpool. When you download the app ‘SatsymphQR’ onto your phone (you need to point the phone at the SatsymphQR QR-code as in the picture above) and scan the same QR again FROM WITHIN THE APP (it’s the googly rectangle screaming at you!), ‘street’ is downloaded to ‘Library’.
Go to within about 10m of any of the participating libraries, open SatsymphQR, open Library, click on ‘street’ – a map rolls out on-screen.
Ok, and now? ‘I am the blue arrow. It points in the direction I’m looking. It turns as I turn (oh, btw, the map is NOT scrollable!).’ Walk a bit and you’ll see the arrow (ME) move across the map as you move, or turn as you turn. Move into the red soundpool. The poems will start. There may be 3, 4 or even 5 poems in each soundpool – listen to them all! Move on to another participating library and repeat the procedure. It’s FUN.
The best sound quality will be with earbuds/headphones.
Please take care when using the app. Watch out for traffic. Do NOT step out into the road. Watch out for other people, dogs, bicycles and any other of the usual urban hazards.
This is what you will see on your screen. I am the blue arrow. It points the direction I am heading. The coloured blob is ‘a soundpool’. containing the poems. When I move into the soundpool, the poetry is triggered by my phone’s gps. Play with it, swivel on the spot (the arrow – me – swivels) see what happens when you go out of the soundpool, then back in again!
Want to see an actual walk thru’ example? Here’s one: HORFIELD WALK THRU
Libraries / Authors / Poems
CREDITS
STREET! was conceived, curated and produced by Ralph Hoyte in partnership with Bristol Libraries
Coding: Phill Phelps
Poets & Libraries:
AVONMOUTH
Sophie Power Bus Stop Dreams
Pete Weinstock Some Years On
BISHOPWORTH
Kathryn Janes Hebron Road
Beccy Golding Victoria Park Rainbow
Finbar Cullen Cul de Sac
Dominic Fisher Along the Avenue
BISHOPSTON
Pete Weinstock Line Dancing
Connie Tact Ode to the Glozzer
Deborah Harvey On the Gloucester Road
Mike Manson The past is there for all to see
Jon Dovey 10am The Bristol Flyer
CENTRAL1
Deborah Harvey The Mary Block
Grace Yang Mutton Tump
Philippa Lewis Please Take
Sennen Uma I Belong in Bristol
CENTRAL2
Ralph Hoyte Shrapnel
Pete Weinstock On the Line
Jules Ester Flowers of Light and Darkness
Phoebe India Peach You Are Not My North Street
Deborah Harvey Pero’s Bridge
CLIFTON
DC Johnson The street as we knew it
Kate Noakes I am not Diane Fossey
Tim Burroughs Below on my Street
Tim Munson Leaving
FILWOOD
Agata Palmer Not Bored at Broadwalk
Dominic Fisher Photo of a Fox Leaving the Garden
Beccy Golding Jubilee
FISHPONDS
Pete Weinstock The Three Steps
Sennen Uma I belong in Bristol
Peter Cowlam Night Hawk
Jet McDonald Downhill Racing from Everest Road
HENLEAZE
Pete Weinstock Lets Hear The Years
Anna Lawson My Second Favourite tree
Martin Rieser Chandos Road
HORFIELD
Dominic Fisher Pineboards and House Coal
Deborah Harvey A Pint at the Shifting Sky
Nathan Insall Inbetween
Tim Munson Leaving
JUNCTION 3
Jules Ester Flowers of Light and Darkness
Sophie Power Bus Stop Dreams
SOUTHMEAD
Deborah Harvey A Poem for Southmead
Laura Briscoe Gates and Cakes
Dominic Fisher A Smell of Baking
ST GEORGE
Molly Gooch The Old Blossom Tree
Pete Weinstock Some Years On
ST PAULS
Deasy Bamford Whose Street?
Betty Blight Street Party
Ralph Hoyte NOT
Ralph Hoyte 