This is just weird:
Carrying rolled up, recently written poems, the pigeons will race from Stanwell Tops to Wollongong – with the winning poem decided by the first pigeon across the finish line.

Another pigeon, fitted with a surveillance camera, will follow the competitors and the “bird cam” will beam live pictures of the event billed as the world's first pigeon-powered poetry competition.

But maybe not much weirder than the current practice of manuscript contests here in America.