The friendly bleep signalling a text message delivery visibly tweaks the corners of lips into smiles in the office, on the train, the bus – everywhere. In fact, two million text messages are sent in the UK every hour, the Guardian newspaper claimed yesterday. Without realising it, people are writing short messages in a way society has never seen before.
An initiative from media company Blink, under its ‘Centrifugalforces’ program, realises the potential of mobile phone technology as the perfect platform for poetry, and has created a new project set to transform the city of Leeds into a cacophony of bleeping phones – enough to turn Trigger Happy TV’s Dom Joly green with envy.
