Play You Poets Right is a jumbo-sized poetry scratchcard that includes 2 games and a writing prompt. This scratchcard is enclosed in a harvest yellow diamond flap envelope. It's an elegant poetic ephemeral with a matte smooth finish. The paper used for the cards is 100% recyclable and is made with 60% recycled materials and 0% chlorine. Multiple prizes to be won, including Poem Atlas books and £5 book vouchers!
Astra’s page-based poems and objects often have an interactive dimension to them as a means of reaching out to new or non-poetry audiences as well as engaging with readers and viewers in a deeper sense. From her Poetry Jenga which has taken many forms over the years to wearable poems, her tangible visual poems often take the shape of — and reshape or transform — recognisable objects.
Concerned with playing too much? Worry not, too much poetry never harmed anyone.
Jumbo Poetry Scratchcard by Astra Papachristodoulou
74 mm x 105 mm
350 gsm
1 scratchcard
First edition of 200
Launched: 1 February 2024
Poem Atlas (London)
Astra Papachristodoulou holds a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Surrey. Her practice-based doctoral project at Surrey was funded by the Doctoral College Studentship Award and explored sculptural poetics as a revolutionary act in the context of the Anthropocene. Astra is the author and editor of several books including Selected Variations for bees (Guillemot Press), and Constellations (also from Guillemot Press), and her work has been translated into Turkish, Korean, German, Russian, Slovenian and Spanish.