The Places of Poetry: a community arts project

诗歌的地方将创建一个独特的英格兰和威尔士的数字地图，在2019年春末和夏季的公共活动中，将把关于地方、遗产和身份的众包诗歌钉在地图上。该项目旨在促进对英格兰和威尔士民族和文化特征的反思，庆祝地方的多样性、遗产和个性。因此，该项目结合了过去的模式-十七世纪早期的民族描述史诗，迈克尔德雷顿的波利奥尔比翁-与当今创造性实践的价值承诺。Poly-Olbion一直是本申请PI Andrew麦克雷领导的编辑和关键项目的主题。该项目还涉及一些面向公众的工作，并得到了遗产彩票基金的进一步支持，这有助于展示德雷顿的工作和雕刻师威廉·霍尔与这首诗一起出版的独特的县地图的力量。与此同时，诗人保罗·法利（Paul Farley）（该项目的共同作者）花了数年时间对波利-奥尔比昂进行了21世纪的重新概念化（预计将于2019年与费伯一起出版）。这导致了“诗歌的地方”的核心合作。新的英格兰和威尔士地图将大量借鉴霍尔的原始作品的图像，但将根据需要进行修改和轻微更新。由于德雷顿和霍尔只涉及英格兰和威尔士，诗歌的地方也将限制在这两个英国国家。该地图将覆盖在Ordos Survey数据之上，其功能使用户不仅能够放大和缩小，而且还能够在两幅地图之间滑动。用户将被鼓励把诗歌钉在特定的地方。地图将预先填充一些历史性的（不受版权保护的）作品;然而，该项目的中心目标是生成原创作品。该项目的网站以地图为中心，将致力于向用户介绍地点、遗产和身份的诗意，并将提供旨在指导他们自己创作的材料。经过一段时间的筹备工作，《诗的地方》将在2019年夏天的一场密集宣传活动中推广。这将包括：启动活动、英国广播公司广播节目、全国写作讲习班之旅、短片和社交媒体活动。该项目涉及与诗歌协会和OrphonySurvey的战略合作。虽然该项目在技术上是独立的，但对目前申请的积极反应将引发向遗产彩票基金和艺术理事会的进一步申请（已经处于先进状态），以进行一系列平行的工作，这将大大提高该项目的范围和价值。这将集中在与主要区域艺术和遗产合作伙伴的活动上，并涉及一个诗人居住方案。它将侧重于特定的用户群体（如年龄、地点、背景）和不同种类的遗产（如史前、罗马、农业、工业、宗教、自然）。该网站将持续开放十周，接受捐款。在这段时间结束时，PI将写一篇关于该项目的反思文章。作为遗产，可能会有商业开发的机会，而该网站将在项目结束后继续存在，作为2019年夏天的地方，遗产和身份的诗歌档案。

The Places of Poetry will create a distinctive digital map of England and Wales, onto which crowd-sourced poems of place, heritage and identity will be pinned in the course of a public campaign in the late-spring and summer of 2019. The project aims to prompt reflection on national and cultural identities in England and Wales, celebrating the diversity, heritage and personalities of place. The project thus combines a model from the past - the early seventeenth-century epic of national description, Michael Drayton's Poly-Olbion - with a commitment to the value of creative practice in the present day. Poly-Olbion has been the subject of an editorial and critical project led by the PI on this application, Andrew McRae. That project also involved some public-facing work, supported further by the Heritage Lottery Fund, which helped to demonstrate the power today of both Drayton's work and the distinctive county maps published with the poem, by the engraver William Hole. Meanwhile, the poet Paul Farley (Co-I on this project), has spent a number of years working on a twenty-first-century reconceptualization of Poly-Olbion (due for publication with Faber in 2019). This led to the collaboration at the heart of 'The Places of Poetry'. The new map of England and Wales will draw heavily upon the iconography of Hole's original works, but will be amended as necessary and lightly updated. Since Drayton and Hole only covered England and Wales, The Places of Poetry will also limit itself to these two British nations. The map will be overlaid upon Ordnance Survey data, with functions enabling users not only to zoom in and out, but also to slide between the two maps. Users will be encouraged to pin poems to particular places. The map will be pre-populated with a selection of historic (out of copyright) pieces; however, the project's central aim is to generate original work. The project website, with the map as its central and defining image, will aim to introduce users to the poetry of place, heritage and identity, and will provide materials designed to coach them through their own compositions. After a period of preparatory work, The Places of Poetry will be promoted through the course of an intensive campaign in the summer of 2019. This will include: a launch event, BBC radio programmes, a national writing-workshops tour, a short film, and social media activity. The project involves strategic collaborations with The Poetry Society and The Ordnance Survey. Although the project is technically freestanding, a positive response to the present application will trigger further applications (already in advanced states) to the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Arts Council, for a parallel package of work that would significantly enhance the reach and value of the project. This will be centred on activities with major regional arts and heritage partners, and involving a programme of poets-in-residence. It will focus on particular user-communities (e.g. age, location, background), and different kinds of heritage (e.g. pre-historic, Roman, agricultural, industrial, religious, natural). The website will remain open for contributions for ten weeks. Towards the end of this period, the PI will write a reflective article about the project. As a legacy, there may be opportunities for commercial development, while the site will remain in existence after the project closes, as an archive of the poetry of place, heritage and identity in the summer of 2019.