Using a colour-coded map of the sonic patterns of the poems, this visual representation of the Bard’s poetic form offers new insight into the mind and work of William Shakespeare.
‘In BardCode […] Gregory Betts reveals to us the visual properties of the Bard’s mastery of language. Creating a heatmap out of the sonnets, Betts makes every syllable glow and shimmer in all the hues of Shakespeare’s verse.’ Joakim Norling, Editor of Timglaset Editions.
See Shakespeare’s Sonnets from a new angle. Using a colour-coded map of the sonic patterns of the poems, this visual representation of the Bard’s poetic form offers new insight into the mind and work of William Shakespeare. This fascinating project highlights the remarkable sound patterns of syllables across the works and illuminates the complexity of the poems.
Join Gregory in this special performance, followed by an in conversation with Paul Perry.
Gregory Betts is an experimental poet based in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. He is the Literary Arts Residency Lead at the SETI Institute and curator of bpNichol.ca. He is the author or editor of 23 books and teaches at Brock University.
Paul Perry is the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of several books of poetry and prose. A winner of the Hennessy Prize for Irish Literature, he is a poet, novelist, and screen-writer, and Professor of Creative Writing at University College Dublin where he directs the The UCD Mary Lavin Centre for Creative Writing.
Presented in partnership with UCD’s School of English and The Mary Lavin Centre for Creative Writing.