Anagrams

A text's letters are rearranged to make a different text. Prose>Poser. This form limits the poet to the alphabet of the original text as well as the number of times each letter occurs. As a poetic technique, the anagram can be reapplied to words in a sentence (Ananym), or the lines or sentences in a stanza or paragraph (Analine). Any Palindrome contains at least a partial anagram.

In a Triple Anagram, a text is permuted into an Analine, an Ananym, and an Anagram.

An anagram is a form of Serial Poetry.

Source

Traditional wordgame

Examples

A nice example (in French) is Georges Perec's "Ulcerations" in which every line is an anagram of the word "ulcerations."

Works that use this form

• A Kite
• Deterpreted
• Newspoem 12 February 2005: So Criminal a Police to Police a Criminal So
• Newspoem 23 May 1998: Plundered Ploughman
• Receivable
• Student Talks to Entrepreneur
• Student Talks to Poet
• Victory Speech
• [triple anagram]

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