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A spare chair. A boiling kettle. A poem sent out into the world while its writer stays home making tea. Upper Case—Yewper to his friends—finds plenty to think about in an apparently uneventful day. A conversation begins, a name gets misheard, and a garden quietly rearranges the morning’s plans. A Poet’s Intimate Creative Awakening gathers poems and short prose about tentative connections, ordinary pleasures and the hope of finding someone who recognises a little of themselves in your words. Yewper is a fictional poet created for The Blue•Print. Developed with AI assistance under John Anthony Brown’s direction and editing, this demonstration collection explores how a book can take shape, one carefully considered page at a time. A note on the title The initials of A Poet’s Intimate Creative Awakening form APICA—or “a pica,” a traditional typographic measure of twelve points. For a poet called Upper Case, even the title has found its way into the composing room.