Philip Terry

Philip Terry was born in Belfast, and is a poet, translator, and a writer of fiction. He has translated the work of Georges Perec, Michèle Métail and Raymond Queneau, and is the author of the novel “tapestry”, shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize. His poetry and experimental translations include “Oulipoems”, “Dante’s Inferno”, and “Dictator”, a version of the Epic of Gilgamesh in Globish. “The Penguin Book of Oulipo”, which he edited, was published in Penguin Modern Classics in 2020, and Carcanet published his edition of Jean-Luc Champerret’s “The Lascaux Notebooks”, the first ever anthology of Ice Age poetry, in April 2022.