A Belfast Childhood – Philip Terry

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ISBN 978-1-912616-03-9 | Poetry | B Format (UK), Paperback, 94pp

A Belfast Childhood explores the form invented by Joe Brainard in his book I Remember, and taken up by Georges Perec in France. Here the form is subject to an additional constraint, which emerges from the title: the first 26 memories are arranged alphabetically; subsequently, the alphabetical entries are permutated according to a sestina of order 26.