Here's an idea of Raymond Queneau's, recalibrated for the Internet user. Queneau's Cent mille milliards de poèmes, published in 1961, consisted of 10 sonnets, with each line printed on a separate strip so that they could be freely mixed and matched. We've already tried out a similar idea with Chimerium, a pamphlet printed alongside Fuselit: Aquarium which allowed you to mix and match poems by a number of different poets, including Luke Kennard, Roddy Lumsden, W.N. Herbert, Jack Underwood and Sam Riviere. Here, we have mimicked Queneau's original idea more closely, with Kirsty writing ten pantoums - or rather, ten variations for each line of a pantoum - and Jon programming them into this page. Just click the numbers below to begin populating the poem with lines.
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