World’s First Audience Email Poem on 02/03/10

    New Zealand Poet in Schools Greg O’Connell and Year 9 students at St Margaret’s College, Christchurch have generated the world’s first Audience Email Poem. At Greg O’Connell’s live Interactive Poetry Show every Year 9 student brought along her individual laptop computer and emailed a word or phrase for a collaborative Audience Email Poem. Greg’s challenge was to create a poem using ALL the 90 random words.

    The Email List of 90 Words

    flamingo, javelin, curtains, baton, peace, Charlie, gregalicious, potato, enthusiastically, world, banal, grape, muffin, superduper, gargantuan, Clementine, unorthodox, schoo, Sarah, Hamadryad, jelly, Arrowtown, miscellaneous, yellow, eyeballs, open-minded, advocacy, meow, chihuahua, glamous, aqua, pineapple, sunshine, champion, bush, sunny, extraordinarily, antidisestablishmentarianism, emmalia, devilish, anthonyms, gawgeous, Inuit, honorificabilitudinitatibus, Farri-Gaba, lollypop, walrus, omni dazzle, Lamborghini, omelette, rabbit, extravagant, awesomeness, rake, thornbush, sparkle, Kaimai-Rua, funny, triceratops, platypus, Perkins, kowhai, mungo, superman, jubilee, cadet, splendid, pie, fighting, combination lock, aprosexia, lushes, vampire, goat, toenail, arashi, calculating, ice cream, ciguatera, attach, hairtie, cheeseballs, Jax, eccentric, unorthodox, aspiration, devilish, proliferation, guacamole.

    And here’s the historic result…(spelling as submitted)

    Fighting Aprosexia

    Aprosexia is an abnormal inability to pay attention,
    characterized by a near-complete indifference to everything

    i

    curtains!
    devilish vampire, devilish goat
    honorificabilitudinitatibus!
    banal anthonyms

    ii

    Arashi / Storm

    antidisestablishmentarianism,
    funny miscellaneous proliferation  

    cheeseballs, eyeballs,
    walrus, platypus

    glamous, gregalicious,
    guacamole awesomeness

    Innuit ice cream, extravagant grape jelly,
    pineapple muffin, potato mungo schoo

    flamingo toenail, thornbush rabbit,
    eccentric emmalia, baton cadet

    Hamadryad bush, calculating ciguatera,
    chihuahua hairtie, javelin jubilee

    lushes lollypop, gargantuan triceratops,
    Arrowtown Lamborghini combination lock.

    iii

    meow
    enthusiastically
    open-minded champion
    Sarah Perkins Kaimai-Rua
    Jax Charlie Clementine Farri-Gaba

    rake
    extraordinarily
    superduper superman

    iv

    sparkle
    splendid kowhai yellow sunshine

    attach
    aspiration, advocacy, peace

    sunny unorthodox omelette
           gawgeous unorthodox pie
                  charmed, aqua, omni dazzle world.

    Greg O’Connell © 2010