Christian Bök (born Book, 1966) is a Canadian concrete and experimental poet. His work Eunoia, a story that uses only one vowel in each of its five chapters (that is, a lipogram), is one of the best-selling works of Canadian poetry. Edited by Darren Wershler-Henry at Coach House Books, Eunoia won the lucrative Griffin Poetry Prize in 2002. His poetry has been featured in the lyrics of Norwegian artist Ulver's "A Quick Fix of Melancholy EP" (2003). Bök is also a sound poet, having performed an extremely condensed version of Kurt Schwitters' Ursonate. He has created conceptual art, making artist's books from Rubik's cubes and Lego bricks. Bök is a graduate of the University of Toronto and has taught at York University in Toronto; he currently teaches at the University of Calgary. He has also worked in science-fiction television, designing artificial languages for fictional alien species on Earth: Final Conflict and Peter Benchley's Amazon. 1966 was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ... Concrete poetry is poetry in which the typographical arrangement of words is as important in conveying the intended effect as the conventional elements of the poem, such as meaning of words, rhythm, rhyme and so on. ... Poets are authors of poems, or of other forms of poetry such as dramatic verse. ... Eunoia is a rarely used medical term referring to a state of normal mental health. ... A lipogram (from Greek lipagrammatos, missing letter) is a kind of writing with constraints or word game consisting of writing paragraphs or longer works in which a particular letter or group of letters is missing, usually a common vowel, the most common in English being e (McArthur, 1992). ... Darren Wershler-Henry is a Canadian experimental poet. ... Coach House Press is an independent press located in Toronto, Canada. ... The Griffin Poetry Prize is Canadas youngest and most lucrative poetry award. ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Sound poetry is a form of literary or musical composition in which the phonetic aspects of human speech are foregrounded at the expense of more conventional semantic and syntactic values; verse without words. By definition, sound poetry is intended primarily for performance. ... Kurt Schwitters (June 20, 1887 - January 8, 1948) was a German painter who was born in Hannover, Germany. ... Conceptual art, sometimes called idea art, is art in which the ideas embodied by a piece are more central to the work than the means used to create it. ... An artists book is an art object in the form of a book. ... Rubiks Cube about to be solved Rubiks Cube is a mechanical puzzle invented by the Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Ernő Rubik in 1974. ... LEGO® Group logo LEGO sets feature a large variety of themed (minifigures), including the Space, Castle, and City figures above. ... The University of Toronto (U of T), in Toronto, Ontario, is the largest university in Canada with more than 60,000 students across three campuses. ... York University (YorkU) is a large comprehensive university, located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The University of Calgary is a university of approximately 28,000 students located in the north-western part of Calgary, Alberta, Canada (pop. ... Earth: Final Conflict is a science fiction television series posthumously created by Gene Roddenberry. ... Peter Benchley (b. ...

Bök's works include:

• Crystallography - 1994
• Eunoia - 2001 (winner of the 2002 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize)
• Pataphysics: The Poetics of an Imaginary Science - 2002
• The Cyborg Opera (forthcoming)

1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... 2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Griffin Poetry Prize is Canadas youngest and most lucrative poetry award. ... Pataphysics, an absurdist concept coined by the French writer Alfred Jarry, is the idea of a philosophy or science dedicated to studying what lies beyond the realm of metaphysics. ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

See also

• List of Canadian writers, List of Canadian poets
• concrete poetry, sound poetry

This is a list of Canadian literary figures, including poets, novelists, childrens writers, essayists, and scholars. ... A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A Milton Acorn Elizabeth Allan Joanne Arnott Margaret Atwood Margaret Avison B Bill Bauer Derek Beaulieu Henry Beissel Navtej Bharati Earle Birney Bill Bissett... Concrete poetry is poetry in which the typographical arrangement of words is as important in conveying the intended effect as the conventional elements of the poem, such as meaning of words, rhythm, rhyme and so on. ... Sound poetry is a form of literary or musical composition in which the phonetic aspects of human speech are foregrounded at the expense of more conventional semantic and syntactic values; verse without words. By definition, sound poetry is intended primarily for performance. ...

External links

• Christian Bök pages on UbuWeb, including recordings and poetry (http://www.ubu.com/contemp/bok/bok.html)
• Griffin Poetry Prize biography, including audio clip (http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/shortlist_2002.php?t=1)
• Eunoia online book (http://www.chbooks.com/online/eunoia/)