![]() ![]() We meet him at the bar of a Waterloo Travelodge, and listen to him breathlessly regale his rise and fall to the unnamed narrator. In the novel, we hear the story of Solomon Wiese, a poet who fell victim to this fate. Those that fail are cancelled and blacklisted from the industry, never to be heard from again. ![]() A newly-invented plagiarism software is scouring through the work of poets, assessing the originality of their writing with a cold percentage score. (In this land, the small publishing house tote is now more ubiquitous than the band t-shirt).īut there are problems with the sophisticated technology of this upside-down world. ![]() Poets are also rich, if you can suspend your disbelief that far – thousands flock to the city’s Southbank to hear them perform, and poetry has become the country’s leading cultural currency. In this reality, MI5 has turned into MI7, fingerprints are accepted as payment, and there are unexplained drone fleets flying over the Thames. Sam Riviere’s debut novel, Dead Souls, is set in a hallucinatory, alternate-world London. ![]()
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