From advertising to road signs, from logos

to global branding to digital communications,

text forms the visual and linguistic background to everyone’s existence. Once

poets were seen as developers of language and ideas,

the creators of new ways of thinking and expressing,

but now they are seen as irrelevant.

Are poets doomed to be advert writers or radio comedians?

Faced with a modern world where the written word

or sign consumes and clutters virtually every environment,

how can poets and text artists work with language?

What are the innovations and devices that can progress the tradition of poetic innovation?