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Awesome!
Where was my life before this book?
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Awesome!
Where was my life before this book?
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Written by Tom
September 28, 2009 at 11:26 am
Posted in Poetry and writing
Tagged with french, literature, oulipo, raymond queneau, writing
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21 November Poetry Hearings Festival in Berlin
5 December
Wurmfest in Dublin
13 December
Best of 2009 at Betsey Trotwood, Farringdon
15 December
Days of Roses at Three Blind Mice, Shoreditch
27 January
Apples & Snakes at Soho Theatre
16 April 2010
Poets' Cafe at South Street Arts Centre, Reading (Guest Poet)
10 June 2010
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It’s an amazing book, isn’t it? If you’re into Mr Q, I’d recommend, too, in no particular order:
Matthew Madden, 99 Ways to Tell a Story (it’s an homage to Queneau in comic book form)
The Oulipo Compendium (a Desert Island Discs choice, this one, absolutely indispensible)
Spleen, by Nicholas Moore (the same Baudelaire poem, translated many many times. Deranged, and, what’s more, available in its entirety on ubuweb. Huzzah!)
Alphabetical Africa, by Walter Abish. First chapter contains only words beginning with A, second with A and B, and so on, for a further 24 chapters, before Abish begins removing letters, ending once more on A.
Simon Turner
September 28, 2009 at 12:05 pm
Thank you thank you htank oyu Simon!
Tom
September 28, 2009 at 2:58 pm