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Three collections of Oulipo writing: which is best for you?

The Oulipo is a writing movement that advocates imposing constraints in order to generate new writing. You can read more about it here:

Imposing limits in order to enhance your creativity

In this article I review three books of Oulipo writing:

  • The Penguin Book of Oulipo

  • All That Is Evident Is Suspect

  • The Oulipo Compendium

I have reviewed these books before, but in this post I have expanded those reviews, collated them into one article, and compared the three books.

The article also includes details of a podcast I’m featured in, talking about Oulipo, and a course I’m running for writers about using Oulipo techniques.

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