The Language Game

<p><em>*“Rejoice, ReJoyce greatly, that this shining treasury of multiple possibilities, of new open forms beyond formalities, is suddenly to hand.”</em> * **from the Introduction by Michael Horovitz **</p><p><em>“Original, playful and very inventive, *The Language Game</em> is timeless.” * **Elaine Feeney **</p><p>“<em>The Language Game</em> is a breath-taking and mind-bending journey into the wizardry, music and mad science of language. A bubbling cauldron of brilliant ideas and experimental form playfully executed to perfection—each poem shimmers with its rejoice in the spell craft of poetry. No-one else is writing like this in Ireland.”</p><p>**Stephen Murray **</p><p>“Timothy Emlyn Jones’s T<em>he Language Game</em> is, particularly in the Irish context, an exceptional work of poetry. He is a poet profoundly influenced by a particular version of experimental poetics… But he also has a fundamental grasp of poetic form, which he uses in a most playful way. In common with other experimental poets on these islands, Jones knows that language is a means of ideology, and not to be taken at face value. Unlike many of them, he knows other things too, such as what “monetarism” was. He absolutely gets my vote.”</p><p>**Kevin Higgins **</p>