WrapperRhymes is a collection of poems written
on wrappers, following the example set by Ted Hughes,
who wrote a Tunnocks wrapper poem in 1986.

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• About WrapperRhymes

  In 1986, then Poet Laureate Ted Hughes handwrote a poem on the wrapper of a Tunnocks bar. It read:

  To have swallowed a Crocodile
  Would make anybody smile
  
  But to swallow a Caramel Wafer
  Is safer.

  

  The poem is on display in the Museum of the University of St Andrews, home to the Tunnocks Caramel Wafer Appreciation Society. It is one of three Tunnocks wrapper poems written and signed by Hughes. The other two read:

  St Columbus ate a heifer
  then wrote a psalm on the hide
  Good News!
  So I ate a Caramel Wafer
  and rhymed on the wrapper’s inside.

  and

  Where the Devil can’t get
  He sends the Old Woman.

  WrapperRhymes is the result of a Twitter conversation between @byleaveswelive (the Scottish Poetry Library), @inpressbooks (independent poetry distributor Inpress Books), @asburyandasbury (writer and poet Nick Asbury), and @effektive (Glasgow design firm Effektive Studio).

  It began when @byleaveswelive posted a picture of the crocodile poem. This developed into a conversation about wrapper poetry as a potential new genre in itself.