The Project (Martin Rieser and Ralph Hoyte) was based on submitted poems geo-located along Poets’ Walk in Clevedon as a legacy project for Clevedon LitFest and launched at the LitFest’s 2025 Summer Festival www.clevedonlitfest.org.uk

32 contemporary poets responded to themes of grief, loss, nature and landscape inspired by Alfred Lord Tennyson (In Memoriam A.H.H) and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Aeolian Harp written when he lived with his wife Sarah née Fricker in Clevedon for a short term after their marriage, before moving down to the Quantocks at Nether Stowey), both are associated with Clevedon’s Poets’ Walk.  A book of the poems has also been published by Bristol Books

Instructions for the Poets walk Audio App

The poems are accessed through your personal smartphone. Download SatsymphQR to your phone by scanning the QR code below. Select iPhone or Android depending on your make of mobile phone.

Open SatsymphQR and use the SCAN BUTTON in the app to scan the same QR code again. You MUST use the SCAN button in the app, not any other means of scanning!

 Go to the corner of Marine Lake (where the inscribed steps lead to the wood).  Open SatsymphQR. In ‘Library’ choose ‘poetswalkclevedon’. The audioscape will roll out all around you. The map does not scroll – it just always shows where you currently are, and which direction you are facing: 

Participants are represented by the big blue arrow on the phone screen and can hunt the pulsating blobs on the scrolling map – these are the ‘soundpools’ containing the poems. There are 32 poems in ‘soundpools’. 

NOTE: The soundpools do drift and may suddenly jump – this does not mean anything is wrong, it’s just the GPS being variable: look at your screen and get back into the ‘soundpoo’l! Don’t worry if you miss the beginning of a poem – they loop, so it’ll come round again if you stay inside the pool.

NOTES: (1) the ‘poemscape’ is best experienced with headphones or earbuds
(2) please take care when immersed in the ‘poemscape’ – watch out for other
people, bikes, dogs etc. Stay away from the water’s edge!