Following his irreverent Oulipian reworking of Shakespeare's
Sonnets, in his new book Philip Terry takes on Dante's Inferno,
shifting the action from the twelfth century to the present day and
relocating it to the modern 'walled city' of the University of
Essex. Dante's Phlegethon becomes the river Colne; his popes are
replaced by vice-chancellors and education ministers; the warring
Guelfs and Ghibellines are re-imagined as the sectarians of
Belfast, Terry's home city. Meanwhile, the guiding figure of Virgil
takes on new form as Ted Berrigan, one-time visiting professor at
Essex and a poet who had himself imagined the underworld: 'I heard
the dead, the city dead / The devils that surround us' ('Memorial
Day'). In reimagining an Inferno for our times, Terry stays
paradoxically true to the spirit of Dante's original text.
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