Gloucester HarborWalk #2: The Waste Land T S Eliot; Guardian video review of Faber Touchpress app
Channel: Gloucester HarborWalk
Date: 2012-05-12

TS Eliot spent summers through college on Eastern Point in Gloucester, MA. 
Here's a video review clip from UK's the Guardian: The Waste Land by Touchpress for iPad brings alive the most revolutionary poem of the last hundred years for a 21st Century audience. A wealth of interactive features illuminate T. S. Eliot's greatest work. Full reading by Fiona Shaw. This digital edition carefully respects the typography and integrity of the original yet offers spectacular new ways to explore the significance and influence of the poem.

• watch a remarkable specially-filmed performance of the entire poem by Fiona Shaw, synchronised to the text
• listen to complete audio readings of the poem, also synchronised to the text, by T. S. Eliot himself (readings from two periods in his life) as well as Ted Hughes, Alec Guinness and Viggo Mortensen
• understand the poem's many references and allusions with the help of comprehensive interactive notes
• reveal the structure of the verse and move quickly between sections with a new navigation tool
• watch over 35 expert video perspectives on the poem including contributions from Seamus Heaney and Jeanette Winterson 
• examine original manuscript pages to see how the poem took shape under Ezra Pound's editing