Recently at the Free Verse Fair while browsing the many stalls of books, I came across a booklet packaged in a refreshingly different form. Starry Clock by poet Jesse Glass (zimZalla) is a miniature handmade play written in poetic form and presented inside a cardboard coffin. Also provided in the coffin was a bracelet made from a string of brightly coloured skulls and a tiny rubber skeleton with a loop of string to hang it from a dashboard, or attach it to a mobile phone.
Starry Clock itself was written in an unusual format; the letters were displayed backwards and a tiny mirror was provided along with the booklet in order to read the text as normal. What a fantastic idea! Having spoken to the poet, Jesse Glass, I discovered that his method of presentation was inspired by
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Leilanie Stewart 