We gather - Board Games - Capital Collections

Category

Museums & Galleries Item

Item no

39825

Title

We gather - Board Games

Description

The following writing was inspired by wintry objects in the Museum of Childhood collections. The writers are part of 26, a group of writers with a love of words, who have invented a form of writing, called a sestude, consisting of 62 words.

'We gather'

'we gather
take turns
throw bones
click spaces
plot warmly
but do what's required
to triumph
sister-brother
or friend
in name or blood
full skirts or uniform
this is war
but by the rules

fast counters
expectations
climb far
be first
sweep the board
Buckeye Bullet
beats Adolf
passes Hillary
jostles Norgay
five
I really need a five
come on
roll! '

By Mandy Lee

Image: Winter Sports board game 1936 & Summit of Everest board game 1953

Date

1936

Type

Toy

Location

Museum of Childhood

26 Children's Winters is a project that has challenged writers to respond creatively and emotionally to objects housed in the collection of the Museum of Childhood, Edinburgh. The writers were selected from 26 and they were allocated different groups of objects that related to childhood experience during the winter time, in the past and in the present. The written responses were in the form of a sestude - 62 words exactly, 26 in reflection. Those sestudes are presented here alongside the Museum objects.

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