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French poet and inventor Jean-Jacques Lapierre with one of his poetry devices The French are Coming!  Building on the avant-garde experimental linguistically unusual other alternative hybrid work of poet-promoters like S.J. Fowle r, and Tom Chivers , the pioneering Paris-based poet and inventor Jean-Jacques Lapierre (above) is bringing his Poesie Trois Menagerie series to London this May, in a deliberate attempt to provoke comparisons to the Futurist visits of almost a century ago.  Lapierre senses a swing to the Euro-text, as he calls it, in London - already home to nearly a million French speakers - and wants to start a cross-chunnel 21st century poetic revolution. In a bizarre mixture of revolutionary France, and Alice in Wonderland, Lapierre's first installation-poem will be Robespierre Through The Looking-Guillotine , in which effigies of Larkin, Ted Hughes , and T.S. Eliot will be decapitated by a rowdy bunch of LangPo reciting executioners.  "Death To T...