Timothy Adès
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Lipograms

What is a lipogram? It is a form of writing popular with a group known as OULIPO, that is to say ‘Writing Possibility Workshop’, although ‘lipo–’ may go back to Plato’s old word for ‘omit’. It’s all about omitting a basic unit (or two) from a particular composition. If you look at this paragraph in front of you, you don’t find any omission of A, I, O or U ….

  • M Sweeney by Timothy Ades
  • The Excellent Wessex Event by Timothy Adès
  • Lipograms from Stratford–on–Avon by Timothy Adès
  • John Masefield (1878-1967): Big Pond Quinsy
  • Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953): Tarantella – Lipogram
  • Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936): Oak Ash and Thorn
  • A E Housman (1859-1936) – Uricon
  • Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891): Vocalisations
  • Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898): Sailor's Wind
  • Lipograms – Thomas Hardy (1840-1928): The Caged Goldfinch
  • Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867): Chill Out, My Sorrow
  • Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867): Cats
  • Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867): Accords
  • John Keats (1795–1821): Ode to a Nightingale – Lipogram
  • Robert Browning (1812-1889) – The Lost Leader
  • Victor Hugo (1802-1885): As Boaz Was Dozing
  • John Keats (1795-1821): To Sleep
  • John Keats (1795-1821): On First Looking into Chapman's Homer – Lipogram
  • William Wordsworth (1770-1850) – On a Major London Crossing
  • William Wordsworth (1770-1850): The World Is Too Much With Us – Lipogram

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