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Richard A. Wadlow is an English writer of experimental prose, prose poetry and science fiction.
Recurring themes in his work include the nature of space and time, the problem of infinity, the role and duty of the artist, and the meaning and nature of knowledge.
Heavily influenced by the life and work of Alfred Jarry, Wadlow is a self-proclaimed ‘Pataphysician, and a metaphysical writer in the style of Jorge Luis Borges and Italo Calvino. Other influences on his work include the novels and short stories of Franz Kafka, the poetry and prose poetry of Charles Baudelaire, the prose poems of Russell Edson, and the novels of Philip K. Dick and Kurt Vonnegut.
Wadlow's first book, Epiphany, was published in November 2005. A second, The Rebel Artist , was published the following September.
In 2009, following three years of research into the nature of creativity in both art and the sciences, he published The Journal of Everything and Nothing , a collection of prose poems and literary experiments. At the heart of the Journal is Everything and Nothing , an experimental 'intuitive avalanche' of an essay that represents an attempt to delineate in full the physical, metaphysical, intuitive and intellectual bases behind Wadlow’s approach to art. The Journal as a whole thus serves as a kind of ‘manual’, a key to understanding some of Wadlow’s more esoteric and avant-garde material.
The following year, Wadlow published The Quiet Adventures of Glass, a 24-page 'sample booklet' containing 15 prose poems taken from The Journal of Everything and Nothing and other sources.
He is currently working on his first novel, tentatively titled ‘Holograms’.
