Mon, July 09, 2012
A helicopter hovered over the London Eye on June 28, scattering 100,000 poems on to the delighted crowds below.
The "Rain of Poems" is the idea of a Chilean arts collective called Casagrande and follows similar stunts in cities that have suffered from aerial bombardment during wartime from Berlin to Santiago, Gernica to Dubrovnik.
Casagrande's Cristoball Brianchi says the forthcoming Olympic Games made London the perfect target.
"This time we have included one poet from each of the countries participating in the Olympic Games so when you see all of these poems in the sky what you are seeing is the story, the literature of all these different places."
