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  • Two Duets With Occasion
    Simon Perril
    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...
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    18,00 €

  • The Slip
    Simon Perril
    The Slip is the final volume of Perril’s trilogy excavating the crime scene at the centre of archaic lyric. We can’t know whether ancient Greece’s first lyric poet Archilochus ‘really’ used his Iambic prowess to curse Lycambes’ family to its grave for a broken marriage oath. But neither can we doubt that his poetic legacy, in Antiquity and beyond, was a by-word for judgements o...
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    16,06 €

  • In the final year of my 40s
    Simon Perril
    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 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 plu...
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    12,20 €

  • Beneath
    Simon Perril
    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. Neobulé was the bride-to-be of the first lyric poet, Archilochus-until her father ...
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    17,94 €

  • Archilochus on the Moon
    Simon Perril
    Archilochus on the Moon explores the tangled roots of lyric. History maintains that Archilochus was the first lyric poet, and in the ancient world he was second only to Homer in terms of poetic reputation. He was a soldier, part-slave part-aristocrat, who took part in the earliest colonial expeditions. Archilochus was famed for his metrical prowess and invention, and particular...
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    16,00 €