{"id":916,"date":"2008-09-17T11:41:44","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T18:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/09\/poetry-a-twitter\/"},"modified":"2008-09-17T11:43:19","modified_gmt":"2008-09-17T18:43:19","slug":"poetry-a-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/09\/17\/poetry-a-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry a-Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The Telegraph UK<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Poetry’s popularity soars online<\/h1>\n

<\/span>By Stephen Adams<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n
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Poetry, long thought of as an art form in terminal decline, is taking off on the internet according to new figures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Recognising the potential of the internet for poetry: Andrew Motion<\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

The British-based\u00a0Poetry Archive<\/a>\u00a0has released statistics that visitors to its website are now viewing a total of more than one million pages a month.<\/p>\n

More than 125,000 individuals – or unique users – have visited the site, which hosts poems and audio readings by the poets themselves.<\/p>\n

Andrew Motion, the British Poet Laureate, who co-founded the Poetry Archive in 2005, said of the figures: “It’s giving the lie to the idea that nobody reads poems any more.”<\/p>\n

He thought the internet was providing a better medium for poetry than books. “Either books have not been doing the job or they are being outmanoeuvred by the internet.”<\/p>\n

Emily Warn, editor of the Poetry Foundation, added: “Andrew Motion was one of the first to recognise that the internet is allowing millions of people to experience poetry in its oldest form \u2014 as an oral art form.<\/p>\n

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