Image by Simon Crubellier Were you one of the thousands who composed the perfect 17 syllables to sum up summer in London? Between 18 and 20 May, commuters saw their Twittered haikus projected onto a huge screen at Kings Cross Station as part of a …
By Chutney Bannister via the Londonist Flickrpool @King’s Cross Station Ballad of Tweet and Yoko Displayed ‘til Friday In an effort to jump on the Twitter bandwagon and commiserate about the miserable weather, Kings Place and Network Rail are asking commuters to and from King’s …
National Poetry Day brought some hitherto untapped talent to the surface yesterday in our Haikommute contest. We were particularly impressed with Palfrey’s bookishness: Head stuck in a book Stations pass by unheeded Forgot my stop again Highfield’s clement weather induced absent mindedness: Beautiful morning The …
It’s National Poetry Day, readers, so tap into your timbre, mik your metre, reject your rhymes and let’s have some tidy haikus about your daily commute. 3 lines of 5, 7 and 5 syllables, and, as one of our team regurgitated: Haikus are fun but …
