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
- 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): Accords
- Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867): Cats
- 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