Poets’ Path

The Poets’ Path was an outdoor, interactive poetry-writing installation created in collaboration with Urban Brew design collective. Commissioned for Faber&Faber as part of the London’s Bloomsbury Festival in 2011, the project aimed to encourage the visiting public to write poetry in an engaging way. Through connecting words taken from 3 poems published by Faber & Faber, participants created their own phrases which were hung within the arbour in the Russell Square in London. In the course of two days, over 2,500 lines of poetry were created with a footfall of 15,000 visitors.

Three poems from three different eras, all published by Faber&Faber, were stripped down to words and printed onto strips of durable paper designed to easily connect allowing visitors to create short poems within seconds. Three fonts were picked to differentiate the three poems.