The Waste Land of digital enhancements…

Faber launches an iPad app for Eliot’s The Waste Land, and has the pundits wondering whether digital publishing will save the classics…

Chris Meade of if:book gives it a big thumbs up:

The gallery is my favourite bit, giving us a clutch of relevant postcards – of Bob Dylan, Dante Alligheri, the first Mrs Eliot, a crowd of people crossing the river Thames,

‘so many,
I had not thought death had undone so many.’

These images create real breathing space around the poem. They evoke, inform and leave the poem be.

See a sample of this beautiful app, and interviews with Faber Digital and Poetry Editors who helped put it together, here.