The poet and the machine - Some of the best poets in the world were creating poetry algorithms in the 1960s [Resources_Geek Life

Abstract

When we think of people who probe the historical uses of technology, English professors don't usually spring to mind. But Rebecca Roach, a postdoctoral researcher in modern literature at Kings College London, did just that when she came across a box of "incomprehensible material" last year while diving into the archives of the Nobel Prize-winning poet and novelist J.M. Coetzee at the Harry Ransom Center, at the University of Texas at Austin.