encoded as a sequence of DNA which is then implanted into a viable bacterium; second, the bacterium reads this sequence of DNA and produces a protein that, according to the initial cipher, is also an intelligible poem. The final product, according to Bök in a 2007 interview, will include: Bök is collaborating with laboratories at the University of Calgary, DNA 2.0, and the University of Wyoming to realize his design. In 2011, nine years after conceiving The Xenotext experiment, Bök announced the university’s labs had performed a successful test run of his “poetic cipher,” meaning that: In 2015, The Xenotext: Book I was published. This first volume, consisting of meditations on science, poetry, human intervention, and myth, “sets the conceptual groundwork for the second volume, which will document the experiment itself.”The Xenotext: Book II remains forthcoming. The Kazimir Effect Since 2017, Bök has been working on a visual poetry project inspired by Suprematist Composition: White on White by Kazimir Malevich. This project culminated in the publication of a book titled The Kazimir Effect (Penteract Press, 2021), which was listed as one of the Times Literary Supplement’s Books of the Year 2021. Recognition Eunoia won the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2002. Bök's poem "Vowels" was used in the lyrics of a song on the EP A Quick Fix of Melancholy (2003) by the Norwegian band Ulver. In 2006, Christian Bök and his work were the subject of an episode of the television series Heart of a Poet, produced by Canadian filmmaker Maureen Judge. On May 31, 2011, The BBC World Service broadcast Bök reading "The Xenotext." Bibliography Crystallography. Coach House (1994) Eunoia. Coach House Books (2001) - winner of the 2002 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize Pataphysics: The Poetics of an Imaginary Science. Northwestern University Press (2001) - See ’Pataphysics The Xenotext (Book 1). Coach House Books (2015) The Kazimir Effect. Penteract Press (2021) ISBN 978-1-913421-11-3 As editor Ground Works: Avante-Garde for Thee (2003) Included in Poetry Plastique (2001) The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology : A Selection of the 2002 Shortlist (2002) See also List of Canadian writers List of Canadian poets Concrete poetry Sound poetry References External links Christian Bök pages on UbuWeb, including recordings, poetry, and essays Christian Bök on Twitter Griffin Poetry Prize biography Griffin Poetry Prize reading, including video clip University of Calgary Faculty of English profile Eunoia online book "Bazaar of the Bizarre: The Book of Horrors"