Quantock Poetry Trail

Poemscapes in the Quantock Hills of Somerset

The Quantock Poetry Trail group is a group of 12 poets and writers, all of whom either live in or around the Quantocks, or who have an intimate connection to the Quantocks and surrounding areas. We have since July 2022 been wandering as lonely as a cloud, um, actually as together as a group of humans, o’er hill and dale, composing poetry to place, to the specific locations in and around the Quantocks which call to us as poets and writers.

The resulting works have been digitally embedded into the actual Quantock landscape, discoverable through your smartphone as audio. You can download the poetry experience onto your phone from this site, print out the relevant maps, and take to the hills. The voices of the poets will float in at the locations special to the poems, triggered by GPS.

The poets and our work are here

Here is How To Get The Walk on your phone

The Quantock Poetry Trail is a project of The Quantock Landscape Partnership Scheme (QLPS) led by Bristol-based poet and writer Ralph Hoyte. The soundscape platform, SSQR (SatsymphQR) has been built by coder and audio-engineer, Phill Phelps.