The callout (Martin Rieser and Ralph Hoyte) was to submit poems to be geo-located along Poets’ Walk MAP HERE in Clevedon as part of this year’s Clevedon Litfest.

32 contemporary poets responded to themes of grief, loss, nature and landscape inspired by Alfred Lord Tennyson (In Memorium A.H.H) and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (who lived with his wife Sarah née Fricker in Clevedon for a short term after their marriage, before moving down to the Quantocks to Nether Stowey), both associated with Clevedon’s Poets’ Walk. A book of the poems has also been published

The poems are accessed thru’ your personal smartphone.

Instructions for the Poetswalk Audio App

Download SatsymphQR to your phone by scanning the QR code below. Select iPhone or Android depending on your make of mobile phone.

Open SatsymphQR and use the SCAN BUTTON in the app to scan the same QR code again. You MUST use the SCAN button in the app, not any other means of scanning!

Go to the corner of Marine Lake (where the inscribed steps lead to the wood).

Open SatsymphQR. In ‘Library’ choose ‘poetswalkclevedon’. The audioscape will roll out all around you. The map does not scroll – it just always show where I currently am, and which direction I’m facing: I AM THE BIG BLUE ARROW! Hunt down the pulsating blobs on the map – these are the sound pools containing the poems. There are 32 poems in soundpools. NOTE: The soundpools do drift and may suddenly jump – this does not mean something is wrong, it’s just the GPS being what it is: look at your screen and get back into the soundpool! Don’t worry if you miss the beginning of a poem – they loop, so it’ll come round again.

NOTES: (1) the poemscape is best experienced with headphones or earbuds
(2) please take care when immersed in the poemscape – watch out for other
people, bikes, dogs etc. Stay away from the water’s edge!

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