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Dante's Purgatorio

  • ISBN-13: 9781800174450
  • Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
    Imprint: CARCANET PRESS
  • By Philip Terry
  • Price: AUD $40.99
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: Book will be despatched upon release.
  • Local release date: 31/01/2025
  • Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 135.00mm) 220 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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A sequel to Dantes Inferno (Carcanet, 2014), where Dante was relocated to the University of Essex, here the action shifts from Dantes island of Purgatory to Mersea Island in Essex. This is a reinvention of Dantes Purgatorio in the spirit of Joyces Ulysses, where Dantes cast is replaced with our contemporaries, from Allen Ginsberg and Samuel Beckett to Putin and Boris Johnson.

Philip Terry was born in Belfast, and is a poet, translator, and a writer of fiction. He has translated the work of Georges Perec, Miche le Me tail and Raymond Queneau, and is the author of the novel tapestry, shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize. His poetry and experimental translations include Oulipoems, Dantes Inferno, and Dictator, a version of the Epic of Gilgamesh in Globish. The Penguin Book of Oulipo, which he edited, was published in Penguin Modern Classics in 2020, and Carcanet published his edition of Jean-Luc Champerrets The Lascaux Notebooks in April 2022.

 

 

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