Perril Simon (95 results)

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Paperback. Condition: New. In the final year of my 40sI shall abdicate responsibilityfor all my poems say, do, or beso they might get a lifeaway from me. Join Simon Perril as he writes an ecstatically elastic 50th birthday poem bidding adieu to his 40s. Written on 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.…

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Paperback. Condition: New. 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."".…

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Paperback. Condition: New. Simon Perril's new collection gathers two discrete works. '45 Days in the Company of Robert Walser' turns to the Swiss modernist as guide to the inner workings of educational workplaces, and the lived experience of them. Alchemy, according to Jung, was a quest for individuation. Inhabiting Walser's pioneering absurdist work exploring a school for servants, Perril finds alarming parallels between the transformative 'suffering' of metals in their journey to a higher state, and contemporary workplace rhetorics of self-development and transformation. 'Sun Deck Set Cogitation' collapses the boundaries between reading and writing by playing with two texts by anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss. The first is a forensically detailed moment by moment account of a sunset written in 1935 while en route from Marseilles to Brazil; the second his account of a 1941 voyage escaping occupied France alongside fellow refugee Andre Breton. As Perril explains, 'I inhabited Levi-Strauss's text like it was a ship's deck I was walking across or around.' The poet takes impetus from an early epiphany Levi-Strauss had looking at the formal intricacy and structural play of dandelion seed heads that give rise to other forms. His poetic 'treatment' of the source texts scatter and recombine word-seeds in surprising combinations: blowing on a seed-head and spreading palimpsestic filaments.…

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