A very short poorly clipped twitter flash essay (in response to some recent criticism of flash as a form)

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Unsung Letter No. 8. from Eley Williams

A taste:

 

Before the book is even opened one is aware of its playfulness. The original hardback defined the work as a ‘Progressively Lipogrammatic Epistolary Fable’; one edition features a rebus on the cover to represent its title and used a picture of a young woman in profile above a small fish and a split peapod; the title, of course, is a phonetic skit on the five central letters of the ordered English alphabet: L-M-N-O-P.

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