The Poetry Vending Machine
This groundbreaking installation is a pioneering attempt to bring both poetry and art to the people in small, easily grasped containers, which you can purchase for only £?.
Instruction for use
The machine vends original poetry and artwork. Each piece is new and especially created for the PVM.
To purchase from the PVM, you will need £3 in coins.
Once you are the proud owner of a PVM product, keep it in your pocket and feel good. Or you can leave it lying around to demonstrate your cutting edge approach to culture. Each work of poetry/art is new, and incorporates the excitement of risk-taking and surprise with little danger of injuring any vital parts of your anatomy.
However BEWARE – Poetry Can Become Addictive.
InPrint
InPrint was founded in 2003 to tour Norfolk with a highly successful exhibition facilitated by Creative Arts East. It is an innovative group of artists and poets from Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex working in collaboration across a range of art forms - print, text, sculpture, digital and traditional image making, readings and performance.
We exhibit our work together and in 2005 launched the first Poetry Vending Machine (PVM) which dispenses quality boxes of images, words, sculptural forms and more from converted vending machines.
We are also involved in the community through teaching and performing, and have received an Arts Council Grants for the Arts award to develop and expand the collaborative work of the group.
For more information see the InPrint website: www.inprintartsandpoetry.co.uk
Poetry Greetings Cards
I have collaborated with the poets Tim Lenton, Lisa D'Onofrio and Caroline Gilfillan to make paintings and drawings, PVM boxes and, more recently, gift cards (see some examples below). These are cellophane wrapped and priced at £3.50 (plus postage and packing) and are available from the InPrint website.
(above) 'Haibun for Baby', poem by Lisa D'Onofrio. 
(above) 'Tree Woman', poem by Time Lenton. 
(above) 'Pear Tree', poem by Caroline Gilfillan.