Making poetry at Shift Happens

I’m at Shift Happens with Geraldine and George from Apples & Snakes and Chris Unitt from Meshed Media.

Now the talk I was going to give this afternoon for Shift Happens has slightly changed and what we’re going to do now is make some poems together.  It’s an idea we’ve been working on with Andrew Wilson from Blink Media, we’re exploring some ideas on making poetry together.

We’re putting this idea out there early because we’d like to share our process with you and do some creating.  Have a go…….

Journey Poems is a creative writing game about journeys and destinations.

It can be played by anyone. We don’t have rules but here are some instructions.

1- When you make a journey, start a text message with the name of your destination (all one word, no spaces, e.g. Oxfordroad) then a space

2- Write about whatever’s interesting – where you are going, or where you’ve come from, or what you are passing, or the other people on the journey with you

3- Write a poem that’s as long as a text

4- Send it to Sarah on +44 7545 596603

Poems will be posted together as comments here on the My Place Or Yours blog www.myplaceoryours.org.uk

This is a partnership project with Blink Media and www.thumbprintcity.com/

Costs and Privacy – It only costs the same as sending a normal text to your friend’s phone. You will not be signed up for anything, ever.