We’ve been working with arts organisation arthur+martha recently to bring some extended digital life to their project “a map of you:postcards from the homeless”.

In the words of arthur+martha:

“A Map of You postcards carry tiny stories, little snatches of homeless people’s lives. In the white space between the buildings, the stories appear, some stencilled, some handwritten, some self-explanatory, funny, dour, elusive. The cards are designed to bring attention to a group in society who are often overlooked, but have much to offer.”

To compliment the postcards arthur+martha have devised an epic Twitter poem. We’ll be mixing this Twitter poem, four times daily, with our standard Twitter feed on the LOVE LED, blending the poems with our everyday tweets, mimicking the way everyone’s thoughts and concerns get intermingled with the noise of everyday life.

“The verses are snapshots in text of homeless lives, in all their moods – joy, terror, humour, resilience, anger. Famously, Engels wrote about the harshness of 19th Century Manchester; people today who live a comparable existence are the homeless. We imagined a dialogue between Engels and the homeless people of Manchester. Interspersed through the poem is found material from Engel’s correspondence with Marx, and his classic The Condition of the English Working Class.”

You’ll be able to follow the poems on our LED board daily over the next several weeks or straight from the source @tweetfromengels.