Talking of poets, I'll talk of another. Sophie Hannah's new poetry collection, Pessimism for Beginners, is published this month. The shortest poem in the volume is 'Limited'. It's a text-message poem (subject to a limit of 160 characters), and it goes like this:
Blank spaces count as characters. It's true.I post it with the author's permission. The other poems are good too - and I say that with complete objectivity.
I wasn't sure. And then I thought of you.