Quennettes

Philip Terry was born in Belfast and has taught at the universities of Caen, Plymouth and Essex, where he is currently Director of the Centre for Creative Writing. His books include the anthology of short stories, "Ovid Metamorphosed" (2000), the poetry collections "Oulipoems" (2006), "Oulipoems 2" (2009) and "Shakespeare's Sonnets" (2011), and the novel "Tapestry" (2013), which was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize. He is the translator of "Raymond Queneau's Elementary Morality" (2007), and Georges Perec's "I Remember" (2014). "Dante's Inferno", which relocates Dante's poem to current-day Essex, was published in 2014 and was an Independent poetry title of the year.

"The lineation speeds along at a nice articulated pace, the Dantesque pitch is right and propulsive, the cast of villains is energising, the balance between language and lingo, the allusive and the obscene just right" – Seamus Heaney