Christian Bk

The first work of 'living poetry' in the world, by the author of the bestselling book Eunoia. Christian Bk, in Book 1 of The Xenotext, outlined his plan to encode a poem into the genome of a deathless bacterium, thereby writing a text durable enough to outlive any apocalypse, surviving until the death of the Sun itself. After more than...

"Many artists seek to attain immortality through their art, but few would expect their work to outlast the human race and live on for billions of years. As Canadian poet Christian Bök has realised, it all comes down to the durability of your materials." - The Guardian Internationally best-selling poet Christian Bök has spent more than ten years writing what...