{"id":1278,"date":"2022-05-02T13:19:45","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T13:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/?p=1278"},"modified":"2022-05-02T13:19:45","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T13:19:45","slug":"1278","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/1278\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/thesyllabary.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/thesyllabary-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1279\" srcset=\"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/thesyllabary-1024x1024.png 1024w, http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/thesyllabary-300x300.png 300w, http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/thesyllabary-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/thesyllabary-768x768.png 768w, http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/thesyllabary.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Peter McCarey has just announced the completion of his monumental work <em>The Syllabary<\/em>, which comprises one short poem written for every single-syllable word in the language &#8211; 2281 short poems in all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wrote a review of this back in 2006, at which point he had already been working on the project for several years, so in total it has taken him more than 2 decades to complete. I&#8217;ve gone back to it regularly, and it remains one of my favourite works of hyperliterature. My impression is that it&#8217;s got funnier, pithier and more Scottish as it&#8217;s gone along. You can find it at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thesyllabary.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.thesyllabary.com\/<\/a>. You can find my review, now somewhat out of date, at http:\/\/hyperex.co.uk\/reviewsyllabary.php<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To celebrate the completion of <em>The Syllabary<\/em>, Peter has just published two short books of poetry, <em>Orasho <\/em>and <em>Pogo<\/em>, both of which are available from <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.redsquirrelpress.com\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.redsquirrelpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Red Squirrel Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter McCarey has just announced the completion of his monumental work The Syllabary, which comprises one short poem written for every single-syllable word in the language &#8211; 2281 short poems in all. I wrote a review of this back in 2006, at which point he had already been working on the project for several years, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/1278\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1280,"href":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions\/1280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/edwardpicot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}