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Beneath
Simon Perril's new collection is the twin to his Archilochus on the Moon, and continues his exploration of the tangled roots of ancient Greek lyric. A nekyia is an underworld story preserving a rite from classical antiquity wherein the living call up the dead, and are questioned about the future. Neobule was the bride-to-be of the first lyric poet, Archilochus-until her father inexplicably called it off and incurred the most infamous poetic wrath in literary history. The soldier-poet's scurrilous response shamed the entire family into committing suicide. "Beneath" tracks Neobule's arrival in Hades; and voices her gradual understanding of shadehood. She may be "a chorus of gasps / no lyre can pluck," but can still recall being "more shade above / in the mud-brick groves / of kitchens.""
Two Duets With Occasion
Simon Perril's new collection gathers two discrete works, one on the Swiss modernist writer Robert Walser, and the other an engagement with two texts by anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss.
Nitrate
Cellulose nitrate was introduced in 1889, and used until the 1950s as the - frighteningly flammable - basis of film stock. Simon Perril's new book of poems is a meditation upon the birth of the moving picture, the allure of the film still, the aesthetics of the early horror film, and the contemporary 'intermission' that moors us out of time. Its touchstones are the chronophotographs of E.J. Marey and the cinematic 'essays' of film-maker Chris Marker. Marey's experiments in understanding motion inadvertently contributed to the origins of film, but also, more darkly, to the industrial management of work and time. In a book of three markedly different sections, Perril explores these connections in poems as luminous and flammable as the films to which they pay homage.
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In the Final Year of My 40s
In the final year of my 40s I shall abdicate responsibility for all my poems say, do, or be so they might get a life away from me. Join Simon Perril as he writes an ecstatically elastic 50th birthday poem bidding adieu to his 40s. Written in pursuit of the skin of the moment; the membrane of occasion, these poems nod, wink, cajole, caress, proclaim and defame their way across 80 plus freewheeling stanzas.
Hearing Is Itself Suddenly A Kind Of Singing
This is Simon Perril’s first full-length collection. Perril reinvents domestic idylls, epithalamia and combines these with poems on power, perception and ontology. Savvy, funny and littered with raids on literature, high art and pop culture, this book shows Perril as one of the most promising voices of the British new wave.
Tending the Vortex
Contains essays by Simon Perril, Iain Sinclair, Allen Fisher, Chrissie Iles, Ian Hunt, Liz Brooks, Kevin Nolan, Andrew Duncan, John Wilkinson, Simon Jarvis, Jonathan Jones, Aaron Williamson, Jonathan Romney and Brian Catling.
Comparative Criticism: Volume 19, Literary Devolution: Writing in Scotland, Ireland, Wales and England
The theme of volume 19 is 'Literary Devolution: Writing Now in Scotland, Wales, Ireland and England', and includes poetry from Scotland, with essays by David Kinloch and Christopher Whyte on Socttish Gaelic; and poetry from Wales with essays by Jerry Hunter and Sam Adams; from Ireland, three cantos of John Montague's new poem on David Jones, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill's Gaelic poetry translated by Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon and Medbh McGuickan, and a new play by Vincent Woods, acclaimed in performance and published here for the first time; and English poetry together with new fiction by Iain Sinclair. It also includes an interview with Nathaniel Tarn, editor of innovative Cape Goliard Editions. Translation from European poets into English and Scottish is a seminal feature of poetry in this period, represented here by translation from the Polish by Seamus Heaney, from Mayakovsky by Edwin Morgan, from Rimbaud and Mandelstam by Alistair Mackie; and Sylvia Plath's translations from the French reviewed by Alistair Elliot.
