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Text poetry

The Guardian's innovative competition for poems limited to 160 characters
  • Texting

    Student publishes a new Shakespeare text

    We're not talking First Folio, mind. This is the world of 2b r nt 2b - but with the highest of motives

  • Orange SMS shorthand poetry competition: the shortlist

    Read the text poems shortlisted for the special £250 Orange prize for the most creative use of SMS shorthand text poetry competition.

  • A writer in the wings

    This year's winner was just waiting for a lucky break, writes Victor Keegan

    • A writer in the wings

    • What the judges said

    • The winners

  • Test the hot hundred

    Our text message poetry competition - which coincides with the 10th anniversary of the first text message sent - enters its final stage today, when all participants will be texted the first of the five poems that reached the short list

  • Phone lines

    Entries are flooding in from our mobile poets

  • Windows on life

    Andrew Wilson discusses his favourite poem of last year

  • 'Text messaging is liberating'

    Last year's winner, Hetty Hughes, on the charm of the medium

  • 160 characters in search of an author

    Online's editor Victor Keegan introduces the Guardian's second text poetry competition

  • Terms and conditions

    By submitting entries to this SMS poetry competition all entrants are deemed to accept all the following terms and conditions and agree to be bound by them:

  • The message is the medium

  • Hitting the jackpot

  • Join the text set

  • Everyday words about everyday lives

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