As Twitter becomes an increasingly important platform for micro-mini creative writing, it’s no surprise that publishers are willing – no, anxious! – to publish quite ridiculously tiny books.
Such an outfit is the online The Origami Poems Project which produces ‘Origami Micro-Chapbooks’ with poems so arranged that readers may print them on a single sheet of paper, then fold them, origami-style, into palm-sized books ready to read and share.
I’m sure any Mancunian reading his piece below will recognise the mysterious aura of divine damp that ever pervades our favourite city. But perhaps I’ve now left myself open to derision ..!
“Mystery Story
“Covered in slight fog
Faces blur over the sunset
“Stretching round the back of
The shut down bus station
“ Leading to the deserted dockyard
And blown out streetlights
“Breathing in and out slowly
Like a deer frozen in the headlights
“And a mystery unsolved
Dripping off the side of the bridge”.
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