Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; CANTO I; CANTO II; CANTO III; CANTO IV; CANTO V; CANTO VI; CANTO VII; CANTO VIII; CANTO IX; CANTO X; CANTO XI; CANTO XII; CANTO XIII; CANTO XIV; CANTO XV; CANTO XVI; CANTO XVII; CANTO XVIII; CANTO XIX; CANTO XX; CANTO XXI; CANTO XXII; CANTO XXIII; CANTO XXIV; CANTO XXV; CANTO XXVI; CANTO XXVII; CANTO XXVIII; CANTO XXIX; CANTO XXX; CANTO XXXI; CANTO XXXII; CANTO XXXIII; CANTO XXXIV; Index; About the Author; Also by Philip Terry from Carcanet; Copyright.;Following his irreverent, inspired Oulipean reworking of Shakespeare's sonnets, in his new book Philip Terry takes on Dante's Inferno, shifting the action from the 12th to the 20th and 21st centuries, and relocating it to the modern walled city of the University of Essex. Dante's Phlegethon becomes the river Colne; his popes are replaced by vice-chancellors and ministers for education; the warring Guelfs and Ghibellines are reimagined as the sectarians of Belfast, Terry's home city. Meanwhile, the guiding figure of Virgil takes on new form as Ted Berrigan, one-time Essex writer-in-residence and a poet who had himself imagined the underworld. In reimagining an Inferno for our times, Terry stays paradoxically true to the spirit of Dante's original text.