Words of One Syllable - The Hyperliterature Exchange, Feb 06 |
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Friday, February 24 2006 @ 03:53 PM GMT
Author: Edward Picot. Views: 497
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New on The Hyperliterature Exchange for February 2006: Edward Picot's review of "The Syllabary", a work-in-progress by Peter McCarey, which maps all the monosyllabic words in the English/Scottish language onto a huge grid, and will eventually include a short poem for every one of them.
"Whatever its merits or demerits as a piece of new media, The Syllabary undoubtedly succeeds as a piece of writing. The originality of its concept and the 'sound poem' of monosyllables would make it worth a visit by themselves: but what makes it worth going back to time after time is the unfailingly high quality of the little poems it contains..."
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