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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.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements Preface Nitratean essay on cinema Thoughts on Vivisection Varieties of Cinematic Experience Everything is Subject to Motion, and Everything is Motion’s Subject “to transpose life . . .” A Halo around Here The End of Portraiture Stations across Shape The Islands of Dr Marey Succession Dead Pan Patent Graft The Shuffling Deck The first Audiences Reported Feelings of Sea-Sickness Cenatograph Melomania Possessive Apostrophe Monochrome Marey’s Revolver Ovid on Nitrate Cursed Hands On Looking Into a Still From Murnau’s Nosferatu Fear’s Franchise Ode on Universal Horror Masque Still Lifetime Death by Snowflake Reported Sighting Fatalities of the Silent Image Eye’s Pupil The Intermission Preamble Venture The Intermission Destroy all Monsters Standard Life Crisis On Being Turbulent Untitled The Disposition of Objects in Early Parenthood Amplifier Worship Lines on Verlaine In Gorky’s The Artist and his Mother, three of the four hands are gloved The Case of the Haunted Chill Cabinet Ode to Quandary Grazing Daylight Robbery No Valuables Left Overnight Personal Possessions Interior Design Death by Snowflake Lycantrope forward Blue Profile Possibilis Salutis: a Prologue The Afterlife of the New Werther Afterward Credits

About the Author :
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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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781844717774
  • Publisher: Salt Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Salt Publishing
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 88
  • Series Title: Salt Modern Poets
  • Width: 140 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1844717771
  • Publisher Date: 01 Mar 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 5 mm


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