A Game Player's Text
Channel: Lacuna Festivals
Date: 05/07/2021

This collaborative poem is based on the Japanese 'renga' form (which alternates three lines and two lines for each stanza).

It was written during the first Covid lockdown in spring 2020 by fourteen poets in Scotland, using Whatsapp.

The project was initiated by Calum Rodger. Poets could contribute lines whenever they felt it, over a period of a few weeks.

Later, the text was downloaded from Whatsapp and converted into this visual design by Kate Tough (who also did the reading).

Each poet has a different colour. The piece functions as one creative record of an unprecedented moment in 2020.

Contributors:

Henry Bell, Jessica Cooper, Ewan Downie, Beth Frieden, Jane Goldman, Katy Hastie, Colin Herd, Ruthie Kennedy, Saskia McCracken, Nicky Melville, Scott Norval, Calum Rodger, Greg Thomas, Kate Tough.