Simon Perril

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Biographical note:  Simon Perril was born in 1968. He studied at Anglia Polytechnic University, Leeds University and Cambridge University. Since 1995 he has been a full-time lecturer in the English department at University College Northampton. Previous publications include the chapbooks Spirit Level (1996) and Volume (1998). Drawing Attention was published in New Tonal Language: Reality Street 4 pack 3 (1999). He lives in Milton with Gabrielle and their two children Erin and Holly.

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EAN13:  9781844710102
ISBN-10:  1844710106
ISBN-13:  9781844710102
Author:  Simon Perril
Title:  Hearing is Itself Suddenly a Kind of Singing
Series:  Salt Modern Poets
Product class:  BC
Language:  eng
Audience:  General/trade
BIC subject category:  CTCH1
Publisher:  Salt Publishing
Pub date:  20-Jun-04
Extent:  140pp
Height:  216 mm
Width:  140 mm
Thickness:  8 mm
Weight:  210 gms
Supplier:   Gardners Books
Supplier:   Ingram Book Group
Supplier:   Inbooks (James Bennett)
Availability:  IP
Price:  GBP 10.99
Price:  USD 16.95
Rights:  World

Main description:  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.

Table of contents:
An Address Book
i was cut out for this
A Manifest O
Exercise in visibility
White tissue held against bleeding gnosis
Three Ceremonial Occasions and a Promissory Note
Address Withheld: For Pops
tRAnSUbstaNtiation: i.m. Sun Ra ?-1993
Dawn Transcript: a very occasional poem
epistled off
Volume
Two Poems beginning with lines from somebody else
Volume
Signature Tunes
assembling the instrument
signature tune
surface tension
in gravy
how the 3 sided dream in audio colour unfolds in my life
Poem
now now
terse sets
am i knot
poem
Just Intonation
The Ninth Nerve
inscription found on the inside of Orpheus’ skull
envoi
a Grand Hotel de L’Univers
beneath consideration
tidings
lines for Joseph Cornell’s The Gift
awespicion
inwardness is a tonal effect of the elliptical
words inconclusion: an arrangement
chances are the comets in our future
the yearning of a new colour to be seen
living under a landslide
life in a matchbox: for Billie Holiday
lullaby
on message
faces change ’n changes face us:
hearing is itself suddenly a kind of singing
Episodes
sans autre renseignements
how to accessorise a fact
rote
a poem of objects that live by magic
canticle for workers in higher education
the immigrant song
rogue notions
the spaces between poems
a trapdoor within reason
scribing the blank
Lyric
no dust jacket
zoe trope: a coda

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no dust jacket

my daughter seizes Trakl
pocket marble index

sparse pine–wood type
faces her; she gazes

glare as a glance off water
writing she nods

page flutters        uncreased brow
she returns it

cover pleated now;
shadow veins

splinter frozen puddle

Unpublished endorsement :  Glimpses of first occasionally familiar prospects, through echoes, to a new confident view. Scanning the manuscript a second time, trains of thought passed through different features; but the landscape still interested. A collection well worth reading: ‘sound / thinks for me /when nothing / changes’.

Tom Raworth

Unpublished endorsement :  Simon Perril’s laconic, insightful, tender life-studies return things to their own status and pneuma. Wiry and shrewd far beyond the fateful, intricate living out of our wary reverence of citizenship, the entire while coalescing our ceaseless invisible struggles, imagination, torsion of independence and agents of entropy. A beautiful book for holographic readers. Let it heap.

Lissa Wolsak