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Greg O'Connell's World First

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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 created 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.

The Email List
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 Clementine Jax Charlie 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//