A glamorous divorcee who gained a million followers on Instagram after sharing emotional contemporary verses inspired by her breakup has sold the ‘world’s most expensive poem’ for $525,000 at a New York auction

A glamorous divorcee who gained a million followers on Instagram after sharing emotional contemporary verses inspired by her breakup has sold the ‘world’s most expensive poem’ for $525,000 at a New York auction.

Arch Hades, from , collaborated with visual artist Andrés Reisinger and award-winning musician RAC to create a fine art Non-Fungible Token (NFT) – with the poem, titled Arcadia, selling for more than half a million dollars at Christie’s.

NFTs, which have exploded in popularity in recent months, and are sometimes pronounced ‘nifties’, are digital assets that record ownership. 

They are similar to cryptocurrencies like and Ethereum in that they live on blockchain networks – a decentralised, distributed ledger that records transactions of digital assets. 

Author nft artists Arch, who goes by a pseudonym, discovered her passion for poetry when she turned to it for ‘solace’ in lonely spells at her all-girls boarding school and addiction saw her first book  climb up the international bestseller lists in 2019.

Her writing draws upon her own experiences of heartache and the joy of finding new love following the end of her five-year marriage – with Arcadia – which has been labelled the ‘world’s most expensive single poem’ – exploring the concepts of modern day anxiety and loneliness. 

The sale of the poem – which is 102 lines and 1,000 words long – was billed as the world’s first fine art NFT.  

It explores the concepts of modern day anxiety and loneliness as by-products of cultural and addiction societal constructs. 

Buying a one-of-a-kind nft artists (Opensea.io) means you acquire the unerasable ownership record of that piece of work, access to that piece, and the right to sell on.

Acadia was auctioned on Tuesday in Christie’s 21st Century Art Evening sale at the Rockefeller Centre.