POTM Winter Readings 1 Christian Bök
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Welcome to these special editions of Poetry on the Move, featuring poetry readings from 2018’s festival.
Christian Bök is the author not only of Crystallography (1994), a pataphysical encyclopedia nominated for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, but also of Eunoia (2001), a bestselling work of experimental literature, which has gone on to win the Griffin Prize for Poetic Excellence. Bök teaches English at Charles Darwin University
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