I used "hyperlocal poetry" as a joke at first.
But when I look at the Battersea Poems page on Thumbprint, I wonder if even though it sounds crap, it does describe something real.
What the Battersea Poems writers are doing, collectively but anonymously, is making a shared meaning for Battersea as they understand it.
A process that anyone can contribute to who has a mobile phone.
Despite the marvellous technology behind it, this is and should be a folk process.
Naming the subject and archive of this process after Battersea adds a real and graspable layer of meaning.
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