Dante's Inferno

by Philip Terry

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  About the Author

  Philip Terry was born in Belfast and has taught at the universities of Caen, Plymouth and Essex, where he is currently Director of Creative Writing. His books include the celebrated 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). He is the translator of Raymond Queneau’s Elementary Morality (2007), and Georges Perec’s I Remember (2014).

  Also by Philip Terry from Carcanet

  Shakespeare’s Sonnets

  As translator

  Raymond Queneau, Elementary Morality

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  First published in Great Britain in 2014

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