@e_l_l_i_p_s_i_s

2012

@e_l_l_i_p_s_i_s is an interactive poem that was commissioned for the inaugural Twitter Fiction Festival. The festival ran for 5 days from the 28th November 2012. You can read the festival announcement on the twitter blog.

The poem was tweeted live from the @e_l_l_i_p_s_i_s twitter account at the following times:

15:00 – 16:00 GMT on Saturday 1st December 2012
15:00 – 16:00 GMT on Sunday 2nd December 2012

The poem, originally composed as the basis for the collaborations in Brass Book, can be read in either direction. Each line is a prompt designed to trigger a memory in the reader.  Those memories can be kept private, forming a personal narrative for the reader, or shared by replying, responding or retweeting the prompts using the hashtag #dotdotdot .

If you’d like to read the poem you can do so by visiting the timeline of the @e_l_l_i_p_s_i_s account.