Dante's Inferno

Following his irreverent, inspired Oulipean reworking of ShakespeareOCOs sonnets, in his new book Philip Terry takes on DanteOCOs "Inferno," shifting the action from the 12th to the 20th and 21st centuries, and relocating it to the modern OC walled cityOCO of the University of Essex. DanteOCOs Phlegethon becomes the river Colne; his popes are replaced by vice-chancellors and ministers for education; the warring Guelfs and Ghibellines are reimagined as the sectarians of Belfast, TerryOCOs home city. Meanwhile, the guiding figure of Virgil takes on new form as Ted Berrigan, one-time Essex writer-in-residence and a poet who had himself imagined the underworld. In reimagining an "Inferno" for our times, Terry stays paradoxically true to the spirit of DanteOCOs original text."""