A small group of leading French poets and mathematicians, the OULIPO flood their work with rules and restrictions as a way of breaking into their subconscious minds. Adapting a famous OULIPO constraint, Joe Dunthorne, Tim Clare and Ross Sutherland took up the challenge of the Univocalism – a poem using only one type of vowel. Discipline soon gave way to obsession, and as the rules began to take hold the boys started to find hidden messages in the strangest of places. Found in Translation is an unmissable literary after-party that covers everything from Biblical mistranslation to school bullies and former WWE wrestler Mr Perfect
Tickets are free but booking essential.
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