We are surrounded by words.
Newspapers, text alerts, health
warnings, cereal packets, websites,
phone bills, advertising hoardings,
magazines, supermarket receipts,
spam emails, slogans and small
print. Everywhere you turn,
someone is trying to sell you
something, tell you something or just fill a blank page. You see so many words in an average day, it would be impossible to read them all. There’s simply too much to take in. We are drowning in copy.

www.whowritesthiscrap.com is a rogue’s gallery of everyday writing. Whether it’s a pretentious restaurant menu, a disturbing cracker joke or a letter from the council so tangled up in jargon that you’re not sure if you’ve been evicted or entered into a prize draw, we want it here for all the world to see. Because this stuff – this useless, drab, disposable stuff – is the poetry of the modern world. It’s our shared heritage and our collective guilty secret. Why should we filter out every piece of spam that lands in our inbox? Why should we bin every flyer? We need to get this stuff out in the open. Let’s hoard it. Let’s celebrate it. Let’s tear it apart.