Sunday, May 17, 2009

Christian Bok reading at the tulip festival

Sound poet Christian Bok, came to the Mirror tent of the Tulip festival in Ottawa. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_bok . Christian seems to like taking on mascochistic projects. Eunoia is Christian's most successful project to date and was the main focus of the reading. Euonia - apparently the shortest word in the English language to contain all the main vowels. In his book titled Eunoia, Christian composed several poems that were composed only with words containing a single vowel. Christian also performed other of his own works as well the work of other avant garde writers. I first became aware of Christian Bok from an interview on the CBC program Q. Q host Jian Ghomeshi, interviewed Christian after Eunoia became the best selling book of poetry in Britain. javascript:void(0)A remarkable achievement for such an arcane work.

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