You’ve Got Mail is a playful scratchcard inspired by the lost art of letter writing. Each card hides a short poem beneath a silver layer, inviting the reader to “open” it as they would a piece of personal mail. The project plays with curiosity, intimacy, and the small rituals of communication, transforming the act of scratching into a quiet moment of connection between sender and receiver. This scratchcard comes in a quirky vintage envelope as per image.
Astra’s page-based poems and objects often have an interactive dimension to them as a means of reaching out to new or non-poetry audiences as well as engaging with readers and viewers in a deeper sense. From her Poetry Jenga which has taken many forms over the years to wearable poems, her tangible visual poems often take the shape of — and reshape or transform — recognisable objects.
Concerned with playing too much? Worry not, too much poetry never harmed anyone.
You've Got Mail Scratchcard by Astra Papachristodoulou
85 x 55 mm
350 gsm
1 scratchcard
First edition of 1000
Launched: 20 November 2025
The Poetry Kiosk (London)
Astra Papachristodoulou holds a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Surrey. Her practice-based doctoral project at Surrey was funded by the Doctoral College Studentship Award and explored sculptural poetics as a revolutionary act in the context of the Anthropocene. Astra is the author and editor of several books including Selected Variations for bees (Guillemot Press), and Constellations (also from Guillemot Press), and her work has been translated into Turkish, Korean, German, Russian, Slovenian and Spanish. Her favourite Tarot card is The Star.