Haiku Whispers
The Illustrating The World Project
After a callout amongst the Cities of Literature Network, I was fortunate enough to be selected as one of ten writers from across Exeter, Jakarta, Nottingham and Melbourne asked to create a poetic response to the painting.
The Arts Institute at the University of Plymouth have created a booklet of the commissioned writing which you can view on this page.
About Illustrating The Wor(l)d
In the creative industries, the normal practice is that a writer produces an article or story and then an illustrator is commissioned to illustrate the text.The UNESCO Cities of Literature wanted to reverse that practice and offer the 'Illustration Sleeping With My Allergy' by Weston Wei to writers from several UNESCO Cities of Literature to explore how they would respond to a particular visual catalyst.
