Ian Monk is a Poète and British translator , born with London in 1960.

After studies of letters to the faculty of Bristol-board, it enters the group of the Oulipo in 1998, following a work of translation of adaptation for the Oulipo Compendium with Harry Mathews.

Within the group, it creates new constraints of writing such as the “monquines” which combine Sextine S and words numbered, and the “quenoums” which combine Quenine S and the Pantoum S.

Ian Monk translated many authors, in particular Georges Perec, Raymond Roussel, Hugo Pratt and Daniel Pennac.

He particularly appreciates to write (and of reading!) isosceles poems and “elementary morals”.

Works

• Idiot Town , Cambourakis, 2007
• Stoned At Bourges , thousand universes, 2006
• Writings for the Oulipo , Make Now, 2005
• N/S , Editions of waiting, 2004 (with Frederic Strong)
• unknown of Sambre express train , TEC-CRIAC, 2004
• Family Archeology and Other Poems , Make now, 2004
• the voyage of Ovide , the Orchard ED., 2002
• states of the sonnet , the Library oulipienne, n° 116,2001
• the désesperanto , Plural, 2001
• the voyage of Hoover , the Library oulipienne, n° 110,1999
• Monquines , the Library oulipienne, n° 109,1999
• Fractales , the Library oulipienne, n° 102,1998

See too

Internal bonds

External bonds

• “Before being born”, text of Ian Monk available on the site oulipo.net
• Some “elementary morals” as well as other texts