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
