In relay · returned
Letters to a Young Poet
- Hands
- 0
- Distance
- 12,349 km
- Countries
- 0
- Days out
- 0
Ten thousand kilometres
Why it was let go
Released with a return address in it, mostly as an experiment. I did not expect to see it again.
It came back eleven months later with nine names in the back and a train ticket from Kraków being used as a bookmark. I am not releasing this one again.
Holding this copy? Scan the code inside the front cover, or type it in. The code is deliberately not printed on this page , otherwise anyone reading along could add a stop that never happened.
The record
-
01 Delhi India 4 June 2025 · released by Ravi
Bench outside Lodhi Garden
Their review
With a return address in the back, mostly to see whether anyone would ever use it. -
4,554 km 42 days later
02 Istanbul Turkey 16 July 2025 · picked up by Deniz
Ferry to Kadıköy
Read most of it crossing the Bosphorus twice on purpose.
-
1,226 km 88 days later
03 Kraków Poland 12 October 2025 · picked up by Ola
Hostel kitchen, Kazimierz
Someone left this and a train ticket together. I have kept the ticket in it as a bookmark, which feels correct.
-
645 km 178 days later
04 Munich Germany 8 April 2026 · picked up by Jonas
Reading room, Stadtbibliothek
The list of names in the back is now longer than the introduction.
Left for whoever came next It is asking to go home. I am going to post it. -
5,924 km 26 days later
05 Delhi India 4 May 2026 · returned home by Ravi
Back on the shelf it left from
Arrived in a padded envelope from Munich with nine names in the back and a Kraków train ticket still in it. Eleven months, four countries. This one has earned a retirement.
Follow this copy
One email each time somebody checks it in. Nothing else, ever. Unsubscribe in one click.