Black Cat in The House of Anubis

The poet Anthony Etherin is noted for his interest in wordplay, devising pieces that use limitations in the letters used, or particular structures, to provoke high ingenuity while retaining meaning. He has recently launched a new journal, Elementary Penguin, 'devoted to the pleasures of language', which is seeking 'essays on linguistic curiosities, formal and experimental poetry, constraint-based writing, nonsense literature, original language puzzles, and other pieces of verbal mischief'.

Anthony Etherin is also a musician, and has just released 'Black Cat in The House of Anubis' , "a composition for two rubber-string acoustic basses and an Egyptian basalt sistrum." Who could possibly resist either the title or the instrumentation? And indeed the piece itself, which beautifully conjures up the stealthy stalking of the audacious feline in the temple of the dog-headed god. 

(Mark Valentine)