His book Eunoia, in which each chapter is restricted to the use of a single vowel, won the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2002. Bök is currently working on an eleven-year-long project, set to be completed in 2014, to create an example of living poetry by encoding verse into a DNA sequence. DNA sequence is implanted into an organism with the aim of triggering the creation of a corresponding protein, which, when decoded, becomes a verse created by the organism.