Paperback, 105x148mm, monochrome, 36pp

'Time Among the Sphinxes' is a manifesto about avant-garde poets — the lost, time travellers in our literary heritage. Also featured in this chapbook is 'Translating Translating Apollinaire (Gallifreyan)', which translates a poem by bpNichol into the imaginary, clockwork language spoken by Doctor Who.

About the Author...

Christian Bök is the author of Eunoia (Coach House Books, 2001) – a work of unorthodox literature, which has won the Griffin Poetry Prize. Bök has received worldwide attention for his ongoing project, The Xenotext (which requires him to encode poetry into the genome of a deathless bacterium). Bök has exhibited his artworks at more than fifty galleries around the world, including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, the Power Plant in Toronto, and the Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York. Bök is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and he works, as an artist, in Melbourne. .