Tapestry by Philip Terry
Taking as its starting point marginal images in the Bayeux Tapestry, which have been left largely unexplained by historians, Terry retells the story of the Norman Conquest from the point of view of the tapestry's English embroiderers. Combining magic realism and Oulipian techniques, this is a tour de force of narrative and language. Philip Terry was born in Belfast, and is currently Director of Creative Writing at the University of Essex.
Terry, Philip: - Philip Terry was born in Belfast in 1962 and has been working with Oulipian and related writing practices for over twenty years. His lipogrammatic novel The Book of Bachelors (1999), was highly praised by the Oulipo: Enormous rigour, great virtuosity but that's the least of it. Currently he is Director of Creative Writing at the University of Essex, where he teaches a graduate course on the poetics of constraint. His work has been published in Panurge, PN Review, Oasis, North American Review, and Onedit, and his books include the celebrated anthology of short stories Ovid Metamorphosed (2000) and Fables of Aesop (2006). His translation of Raymond Queneau's last book of poems, Elementary Morality, is forthcoming from Carcanet. Oulipoems is his first book of poetry.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781874400622 |
| ISBN 10 | 1874400628 |
| Title | Tapestry |
| Author | Philip Terry |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Reality Street |
| Year published | 2013-05-21 |
| Number of pages | 244 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Goldsmiths Prize 2013 |
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