George Clutterbuck’s poem was developed out of a workshop held at the  University of Sussex on 16th September. In the workshop, called ‘Lost Letters’, writers produced new creative works using selected prints from the British Museum’s Dalziel Archive, especially pictorial initials that, within the archive, had become separated from their original texts.
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Life is all marked out in lines © George Clutterbuck. Image in the work reproduced by Permission of the Trustees of the British Museum, all Rights Reserved © Sylph Editions, 2016