Gaming the System

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Play has always been central to how Push the Boat Out explores and platforms poetry - and from playful poetry it’s just a hop, skip and jump to poetic games…
A self-proclaimed poetry and games nerd, Calum Rodger is currently working on a single-page-app experimental poetry toolbox, while ABS is founder of the Edinburgh based morefunwith.games. Krishan Coupland is a founding member of the eclectic historical society International Ghost Society, which recently created tongue-in-cheek video games based on the life of infamous Scottish poet William McGonagall. Luci Holland from Tinderbox Collective, meanwhile, has been working with Push the Boat Out to support young people from the Tinderbox Games Club to make a poetry inspired video game - which they will demonstrate during this event and which you can experience for yourself at the festival.
Join these three stalwarts of poetry games as they discuss the parallels between poetry and games, and the possibilities that emerge in combining the two.
Chaired through the ConVERSE Emerging Chairs Programme with the University of Edinburgh.