13 April 2007
Friday 13 April 2007 21:45-22:30 (Radio 3)
With Ian McMillan. Including a series by novelist Elena Lappin which follows the fortunes of Marty Himmelfarb, a writer discovering unlikely success in the world of spam. 1/3.
Predictive Text Poetry
Try typing these numbers into the predictive text messaging mode on your mobile phone to get the poem 'Unpredictive' by Nathan Penlington!
743_63278737_
437_73759_227338559_
538837_29_538837_
843_934448_63_437_3668466_
26333_
9484_2_276536_3464376245_
66_843_539723_
437_3223_745368_
9484_7638_2662368728466
What did you get? See if you are right here:
Find out more about predictive poetry on the show or if you are hooked look at more Nathan Penlington projects here:www.myspace.com/nathanpenlington.
If you like, you can send Ian your own predictive text poetry to the usual address: [email protected]
Playlist
Ian McMillan will be here with another edition of the weekly literary cabaret, The Verb.
Joining him in the studio this week will be the American novelist John Marks, author of an intriguing and inventive vampire novel set partly in New York after 9/11.
Ian finds out from John Marks about the continuing allure of the vampire novel and how the genre can be given a new lease of life as a vehicle for social and political comment.
Also in the studio this week: authors Bali Rai, Marina Lewycka and Gautam Malkani discuss how their work is capturing new forms of vernacular English in the pages of literary fiction.
There'll also be the first in a series of new commissions following the misadventures of fictional spam writer Marty Himmelfarb; plus, the delights of predictive text poetry - a new creative form using the mobile phone, designed by poet Nathan Penlington.
PRODUCTION DETAILS
Fangland by John Marks is published by Vintage.
The Last Taboo by Bali Rai is published by Corgi Children's.
Londonstani by Gautam Malkani is published by Fourth Estate.
Two Caravans by Marina Lewycka is published by Fig Tree Press.
The Nose by Elena Lappin is published by Picador.
For further information on Nathan Penlington go to: http://www.myspace.com/nathanpenlington
