8vo. Wrappers. 78pp. Cover by the author. A book of poems about cinema, with back cover quotations by Brian Catling, Lisa Robertson, and Peter Manson. Gentle bump to the lower corner, otherwise Fine. This copy has been signed by the author ('Simon') and inscribed to John (James); Perril edited 'The Salt Companion to John James'.

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Title: Nitrate
Publisher: Salt Publishing, London
Publication Date: 2010
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1844717771
ISBN 13: 9781844717774
Binding: Soft cover
Edition: First Edition.
Condition: Near Fine
Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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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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Simon Perril was born in 1968 and lives in Oakham, Rutland, with his wife Gabrielle and their daughters Erin and Holly. His poetry collections include Nitrate (Salt) and A Clutch of Odes (Oystercatcher Press). He has written widely on contemporary poetry and poetics, and edited The Salt Companion to John James (Salt). He teaches at De Montfort University, Leicester, and loves silent movies, and noisy music. And cats. Visit www.simonperril.com

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