Jo Shapcott: poetry and technology

This is a really short clip, where Jo Shapcott discusses the future of poetry and technology. I think she's absolutely correct in believing that technology really 'opens horizons' of traditional poetry. No longer to people have to hear poetry, or be in opposition to poetry. Furthermore, traditional writers do not need to fear the 'spiky' ideas of technology. The idea that poetry has to be directly connected to old-fashioned ways of ink and paper is long gone. There is now more opportunities for people to publish all types of works in an instant! This really does open up the door for more people to engage in poetry for fun, for therapeutic reasons, and for the love of poetic expression. She also really briefly addresses the use time delay, and text movement as new techniques that poets can now use. Poems are now taken out of traditional books, and deepened online!

 

It's A Wrap!

I thought this poem would be a great way to leave this course. It's quite humourous and is in traditional written poetry form. The link is below, for those of you who are interested in looking for more poems from this site. 

http://www.scrapbook.com/poems/doc/8524/12.html

Computer Swallowed Grandma

Submitted by: Beverly Faith

Author: unknown

The computer swallowed grandma,
Yes, honestly it's true.
She pressed "control" and "enter"
And disappeared from view.
It devoured her completely,
The thought just makes me squirm.
She must have caught a virus
Or been eaten by a worm.
I've searched through the recycle bin
and files of every kind:
I've even used the Internet,
but nothing did I find.
In desperation, I asked Jeeves
My searches to refine.
The reply from him was negative,
Not a thing was found "online".
So, if inside your "Inbox",
My Grandma you should see,
Please "Copy", "Scan" and "Paste" her
And send her back to me!