The Polesworth Poets Trail (or Ppst) is an exciting project combining new poetry from both local and national poets.
The project aims to promote poetry in all forms through the permanent displays around the town.
Both local people and visitors are encouraged to follow the trail and to view the poems and their settings.
A poetry trail should be a hook to attract visitors to the area who would not otherwise have come.
A poetry trail should be unimposing, such that finding the poems is an act of discovery and also does not preach to those whose interests may lie elsewhere.
A poetry trail should belong to the town and its people and be something that they are proud to promote.
Each poem should enhance the setting by making the reader think about its context within the landscape.
The trail should form a foundation for other arts and literature activities in the town and should be an educational aid for poetry in the national curriculum.
A trail does not need to be static in the sense that some poems may be presented in a form that can be changed from time to time.
Phase 1 through the town, starts July, 2008, with completion December, 2009.