The Poetry Jukebox initiative is the idea of Prague based Piano-on-the-Streets. The cultural activist Ondrej Kobza, is the brains behind the project [www.thepoetryjukebox.com], which seeks to bring culture such as poetry to ‘non-traditional areas’.
Each Poetry Jukebox generally contains 20 poems in MP3 form in a patented design structure. The poetry selected should ‘reflect the contemporary situation in the city, the country, or the world’. The initiative has since spread to a number of cities worldwide, with Belfast being a recent addition; there is one in Dublin, and in the Patri...
The Poetry Jukebox initiative is the idea of Prague based Piano-on-the-Streets. The cultural activist Ondrej Kobza, is the brains behind the project [www.thepoetryjukebox.com], which seeks to bring culture such as poetry to ‘non-traditional areas’.
Each Poetry Jukebox generally contains 20 poems in MP3 form in a patented design structure. The poetry selected should ‘reflect the contemporary situation in the city, the country, or the world’. The initiative has since spread to a number of cities worldwide, with Belfast being a recent addition; there is one in Dublin, and in the Patrick Kavanagh Centre in Monaghan. More recently a temporary Poetry Jukebox has been installed outside Galway Museum as part of an exhibition on the Centenary Decade. This has featured local poets.
Jim Ward and James O'Toole have secured the first rights to a permanent Poetry Jukebox in Galway once the required funding for the franchise and its maintenance has been secured.
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