Featuring, for the first time, speaking pages: audible poems via your smartphone!

Extract from Editorial:

"Talking to a young person well-versed (no pun intended) in the latest modern technology and electronic gadgetry, I was told about these ‘square bar codes’. It didn’t make too much sense until they were demonstrated to me: a quick pass of a smart phone over the ‘bar-code’, the pressing of a couple of keys and the miracle happened. What I had only been looking at as print was suddenly audible. ‘Could you do that with poems in the magazine?’ I asked ‘Of course,’ came the reply, ‘just supply me with a digital recording of the poets reading their poems and I’ll make you some QR codes, audible bar codes as you call them.’ Not wanting to experiment on unsuspecting contributors I asked three poet friends if they were willing to participate in the experience and we developed ‘Voices off the Page’. Three poems you can enjoy on the page and then you can run the scanner of your smart phone (or, as in my case, my grandson’s Blackberry) over the codes, and listen to the poets read. And not just the poem, but a short introduction as well. If you do manage to listen, please let me know whether you enjoy the experience of listening to a poem from Acumen."

Features

Voices off the Page: Danielle Hope, David Perman, William Oxley.

Doorway of Dreams – J.P.O’Malley/Michael Longley.

Poems: Wynn Weldon, Jethro Dykes, Dinah Livingstone, Susan Skinner, David Olsen, Kenneth Steven, Simon Williams, Neil mac Neil, Michael Jennings, Carole Dalton, Edward Lee, Keith Woodhouse.

Interviews on Performance Poetry.

Poems: Terry Quinn, Gorden Wood, Michael Henry, Maggie Butt, Margaret Wilmot, B.N. Oakman.

Blitz Requiem – Francis Warner.

Poems: Layla Hendow, Linda Saunders, Judi Benson, Juliet Humphries, Ann Alexander, Michael Jennings, Sue Boyle, Chris Rice, Susannah Hart.

The Other Side of the Enlightenment – A.D. Harvey.

Poems: David Olsen, Geoffrey Godbert, June Hall, Simon Lewis, Joel Lane, Jim Denning, Katrina Naomi, Simon Lewis, Kenneth Steven, Alec Taylor.

Responses.

Poems: Mike Barlow, Lotte Kramer, Katrina Naomi, Doris Corti, D.V. Cooke, Simon Lewis, Leonard Lambert.

Journey to Vienna – William Oxley.

Obituary – Anne Born.

Poems: Sue Vickerman, Sue Boyle, Maggie Butt.

Reviews: Christopher J.P. Smith, Nigel Jarrett, Fred Beake, William Bedford, Glyn Pursglove.

Poetry Comment.

How to Use QR Codes

You will need to have a smartphone, for example an iPhone or a Blackberry. In order to scan the code you will need to download a QR code reader. Once you have downloaded a QR code reader app, open it and then scan the QR code you wish to listen to. You should then be able to listen to the reading you scanned.