Internet Boosts Poetry

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By Staff

Tuesday, March 3, 2009, 16:56

Writers believe that the Internet has provided a boost to the field of poetry. The poet are able to reach new audiences thanks to email, social networking sites such as authors,facebook,writers and online media players.

As reported by the Telegraph, Richard Smith, a published poet who is also head of modern collections at the British Library is stated to have said that computers are helping poetry. He said: "What's interesting is its counter intuitive. You would have thought that poetry and pamphlets would be failing in the face of the internet, but that isn't happening."

He argued: "It's very like the relationship between the net and live music.

"It's perfectly possible to make music records fairly cheaply, put them up on the net and that's it.

"You would expect live music to disappear but it hasn't, the opposite has happened."

He went on: "At a basic level the net helps to build email lists, but more importantly you can build all kinds of social networks."

Because of the growth of the online communities to back them up, poetry reading groups like 'series' are growing popular. "These reading series often have authors,facebook,writers groups around them. The net is helping smaller networks get together across the country so there's now more sense of solidarity between them," he added.

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