In 2002, a British writer, Valerie Laws, was awarded a grant to investigate what the BBC called "a new form of ‘random’ literature." A flock of sheep had their backs painted with individual words; a new poem resulted each time the sheep stopped wandering for a minute or two.
(BBC News, 4 December 2002)
A representative of the North East Arts Council, who awarded the grant, called it "an exciting fusion of poetry and quantum mechanics."
(BBC News, 4 December 2002)
Click here to read the original BBC news story and to read one of the poems