Friday, June 29, 2012

Poetry on Google Maps


London is currently holding a week-long Poetry Parnassus, a festival of poets from all the competing Olympic nations.

To mark the occasion The Guardian has created the Poetry Parnassus Interactive Map. The map features poems from nearly every country in the world.

The Representative Poetry Online (RPO) from the University of Toronto Libraries has created a Google Map called Places of Poems & Poets. The map allows users to search for places mentioned in the RPO poetry collection. Users can also search for poets by birth place, death place and residence.

The Poetry Atlas is a Google Map that is trying to geotag as many poems as they can and also find poems for as much of the world as possible. If you know about a poem that isn't on the map you can e-mail it to Poetry Atlas and they will add it to the map. 

1 comment:

Janet Abercrombie said...

Wow. Great minds think alike :).

http://wp.me/p1Dq2f-zB Haikus on Google maps