The Poem Caching is going to start tomorrow! We're excited to come to Nottingham. We'll hide the caches on Wednesday evening, and they will stay in their places until Saturday evening.
There will be one poem cache placed near each venue of the In Dialogue symposium: Nottingham Contemporary, Backlit and Primary. We hope that the delegates of the symposium (and why not other poets as well) will find time to explore the surroundings of the venues during the symposium and participate in this playful outdoor adventure!
On Saturday Oct 4th the caches will be collected away, and the communally produced site-specific poems will be presented during the meal on Saturday evening at Primary.
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About Poem Caching
In Poem Caching the internationally popular geocaching hobby is combined to communally created site-specific poetry. The idea is to emphasize details from urban environment and to celebrate them with unique poems that are created through dialogue.
Throughout the symposium there will be three caches hidden on the route between the In Dialogue venues. The Poem Caching blog provides a map which shows the approximate locations of the caches and their coordinates. Every cache is provided with a piece of paper and a pen, plus instructions: if there isn't any writing on the paper yet, the finder can start a poem by writing a couple of verses on the paper, inspired by the location of the cache. If there are already some verses written, the finder can continue the poem with verses of their own, reacting both to the existing text and the location.
The poems will be published along with pictures of the locations in the Poem Caching blog.
The first run of the Poem Caching was held as a part of the World Poetry Day festival in Helsinki in March 2014. In the beginning of October 2014 we are bringing it to the In Dialogue Symposium in Nottingham, England. This blog will go active in the end of September 2014.
Throughout the symposium there will be three caches hidden on the route between the In Dialogue venues. The Poem Caching blog provides a map which shows the approximate locations of the caches and their coordinates. Every cache is provided with a piece of paper and a pen, plus instructions: if there isn't any writing on the paper yet, the finder can start a poem by writing a couple of verses on the paper, inspired by the location of the cache. If there are already some verses written, the finder can continue the poem with verses of their own, reacting both to the existing text and the location.
The poems will be published along with pictures of the locations in the Poem Caching blog.
The first run of the Poem Caching was held as a part of the World Poetry Day festival in Helsinki in March 2014. In the beginning of October 2014 we are bringing it to the In Dialogue Symposium in Nottingham, England. This blog will go active in the end of September 2014.
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