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Christmas Cracker, Sweetie Wrapper - Christmas Crackers
1960, Card
Christmas Cracker, Sweetie Wrapper - Christmas Crackers
Christmas Cracker, Sweetie Wrapper - Christmas Crackers
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39827
Title
Christmas Cracker, Sweetie Wrapper - Christmas Crackers
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.
'Christmas Cracker, Sweetie Wrapper'
'In the bleak midwinter
A flash of inspiration
Of fire and brittle brimstone,
To treat a sweet with reverence
A splash of Chinese gold
First the honeyed air of spiced delight
Rich with roast potatoes
Now the stippled whiff of cordite
An ancient joke
A crown of hope
Coloured paper in a pile
Snap! Snap! Snap!
The ironclad winter cracks a smile'
By Simon Parsons
Image: Christmas Crackers 1960s
Date
1960
Type
Card
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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26 Children's Winters
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