Paper Trail: We Played a Game and Made a Book

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A book by poets Julia Bird and Mike Sims, and artist Roy Willingham - Paper Trail – the book (artists' impression).Want to play?Hello! We are Julia Bird and Mike Sims - friends, poets and cookers-up of creative schemes.A while ago, in search of new ways to kickstart poems, we started to send each other mystery objects through the post. They ranged from the found to the personal, from a treasured ten-year-old Christmas card to a pre-packed morsel of meteorite supplied free by Shreddies. We wanted to stick to the rules of the game so we took strict turns to post-an-object-and-exchange ...

Read More -a-poem, setting ourselves the goal of seven poems each. (Seven is a very lucky number.) Our final constraint? We weren’t allowed to talk to each other at all about the poems or the process till we'd reached the end. That came eighteen months after we

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