![]() ![]() We wanted to be part of the Oulipo, a group of writers and mathematicians who formed in Paris in the 60s.' 'The weather was palindromic on the day we tried to infiltrate experimental French literature. Similarly, in the introduction to the poem,‘This is Crispin’, we get a parody of pretension that is hard to miss: Sebald’s Rings of Saturn, for instance), is premised on a calculating and self-conscious ‘cleverness’ that makes the piece cringe-worthy to read. The speaker (named Joe in this poem, as if to leave no doubt) gradually reveals his apparent spontaneity (the gifting of W.G. ![]() In a slightly different manner, ‘A sestina for my friends’ sends up the pretensions and potential pomposity of the poet. ![]() It makes you feel terribly helpless really, At the same time ‘Eating Out’ undercuts any sense of self-righteousness by satirising the middle-class complacency of the speaker:Ī big steel cage in the alley out the back, His earliest pieces, such as ‘Intelligent Animals’ (a poem written for Liberty about the treatment of terrorist suspects) and ‘Eating Out’ (a poem about food, excess and waste), display a strong social conscience. Oliver, the obnoxious anti-hero of Joe Dunthorne’s debut novel, is nothing if not a lover of words, and Dunthorne himself is essentially a poet. ![]()
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