Christian Bök is the author of Eunoia (2001), a bestselling work of experimental literature, which has gone on to win the Griffin Prize for Poetic Excellence.

Bök is currently working on The Xenotext — a project that requires him to encipher a poem into the genome of a bacterium capable of surviving in any inhospitable environment.

Bök is a Fellow in the Royal Society of Canada, and he teaches at Charles Darwin University.

Gentle on Tokyo Snow

"Protein 13" from The Xenotext

The Nocturne of Orpheus