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Cluster index: Simon Perril

Poems from ‘The Slip’.

Simon Perril: ”’The Slip” is the final volume of a trilogy excavating a crime scene at the centre of archaic lyric. Archilochus, ancient Greece’s first lyric poet, was a soldier, part slave part aristocrat, who took part in the earliest colonial expeditions…’

‘The man who turned to paper’ — and three more new poems.

Simon Perril: ‘There are worse things
than the tumble of gravel/seeping down the tunnel
of the inner ear.’