The Places of Poetry: a community arts project

诗歌之地将创建一张独特的英格兰和威尔士数字地图，在2019年春末和夏季的一场公共活动中，关于地点、遗产和身份的众包诗歌将被固定在地图上。该项目旨在促使人们反思英格兰和威尔士的民族和文化特征，庆祝当地的多样性、遗产和个性。因此，该项目将过去的模式--17世纪早期的国家描述史诗，迈克尔·德雷顿的《波利-奥比昂》--与对当今创造性实践价值的承诺结合在一起。Poly-Olbion一直是由PI领导的这一应用程序的编辑和批评项目的主题，Andrew McRae。该项目还涉及一些面向公众的工作，得到了传统彩票基金的进一步支持，该基金帮助展示了德雷顿的工作和雕刻师威廉·霍尔(William Hole)随这首诗一起出版的独特的县地图在今天的力量。与此同时，诗人保罗·法利(该项目的合作伙伴)多年来一直致力于对Poly-Olbion进行21世纪的重新概念化(将于2019年与Faber一起出版)。这导致了《诗的地方》的核心合作。新的英格兰和威尔士地图将大量借鉴霍尔原始作品的肖像，但将根据需要进行修改，并进行轻微更新。由于德雷顿和霍尔只覆盖了英格兰和威尔士，诗歌之地也将仅限于这两个英国国家。该地图将覆盖在军械调查数据上，用户不仅可以放大和缩小，还可以在两张地图之间滑动。将鼓励用户将诗歌固定在特定的地方。地图将预先填充一系列历史作品(版权到期)；然而，该项目的核心目标是生成原创作品。该项目的网站将以地图为中心和定义图像，旨在向用户介绍地方、遗产和身份的诗意，并将提供旨在指导他们自己作曲的材料。经过一段时间的筹备工作，2019年夏季将通过密集宣传活动的过程，推动诗歌之地的推广。这将包括：发布会、英国广播公司的广播节目、全国写作研讨会之旅、一部短片和社交媒体活动。该项目涉及与诗歌协会和军械调查的战略合作。虽然该项目在技术上是独立的，但对本申请的积极回应将引发向遗产彩票基金和艺术理事会提出更多的申请(已经处于先进状态)，以开展一系列平行工作，从而显著提高该项目的影响范围和价值。这将集中于与主要的地区艺术和遗产合作伙伴的活动，并涉及一项常驻诗人方案。它将侧重于特定的用户群体(如年龄、地点、背景)和不同类型的遗产(如史前遗产、罗马遗产、农业遗产、工业遗产、宗教遗产、自然遗产)。该网站将继续开放十周接受投稿。在这段时间接近尾声时，PI将写一篇关于该项目的反思文章。作为一项遗产，可能会有商业发展的机会，而该遗址将在项目结束后继续存在，作为2019年夏天关于地方、遗产和身份的诗歌的档案。

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.