Partners:
The Academi is the Welsh National Literature Promotion Agency and Society for Authors. Within Academi, the South Wales Valleys Literature Development Initiative is a three-year project to create new opportunities to write for everyone and anyone in the authorities of Blaenau Gwent, Bridgend, Caerphilly, Merthyr Tydfil, and Torfaen. There is a huge wealth of untapped writing talent in the valleys and this project aims to release at least some of it. Involvement in GPS offers an exciting opportunity to identify historical and existing poetry groups and influences and to support new talent within the Valleys. It will also strengthen links and collaboration between literature organisations and artists in the UK with the opportunity to work together on a shared project.
Apples & Snakes is the UK's leading organisation for performance poetry. They are excited about taking part in GPS which complements their online residency project My Place or Yours.
Litfest is Lancaster's literature festival, publisher and development agency. For GPS, between the 16th to the 25th October as part of Litfest09, they will be digging up poetry all over the county, at the seaside in Morecambe, on the coast of Sunderland Point, as well as playing poetry detective across Lancashire.
Wordquake organises Beverley Literature Festival and literary events year round in the East Riding of Yorkshire. They're supporting GPS because they believe that poetry adds to our sense of place and that places shape poetry - GPS is a great way of putting voices on the map.
The Verbal Arts Centre is an educational charity founded in 1992. The Centre's underpinning purpose is the promotion of the language arts, celebration of commonality and diversity, development of knowledge, understanding and excellence in creation, performance and critical practice across the verbal arts forms.
The Dylan Thomas Centre was opened in March 1995 as the principal venue for the Arts 2000 funded UK Year of Literature 1995. It is entirely owned and funded by City & County of Swansea, with support from Academi for its Literature Programme. A multi-purpose venue, it hosts a wide variety of arts events and exhibitions and the annual Dylan Thomas Festival, and houses the permanent 'Man & Myth' Dylan Thomas exhibition, and a bookshop-café.
The Saison Poetry Library includes work from every major British and Irish poet since 1912, magazines, recordings and an exhibition space. Among the treasures are many rare books, limited editions and a rich range of audio-visual materials including live readings of sound, dub and rap poetry as well as performances by Beat and Dada poets. The library is open to all and you are welcome to drop in, call us on 020 7921 0943, or send an email. We can help you find out more about the poetry you have discovered close to home through GPS, as you take the next step in your poetry journey.
The National Association for Literature Development (NALD) offers a network of advice, mentoring, resources, connection with other professionals and the sharing of experience and know-how for those who create or manage literature projects; are developing a freelance career; are looking for career options after studying Creative Writing or Literature; want to develop their writing practice; are looking for a mentor or guide.
Everything we do at the Scottish Poetry Library is about bringing people and poems together. We love to create or engineer chance encounters with poetry, and believe that poems can enrich people's everyday lives– just as music does, and design, and stories of all kinds. Where poems, places and people meet, they create opportunities for a shared response as well as private enjoyment. We're delighted to be involved in extending the Global Poetry System into Scotland.
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