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I
- Wrong Evenings
- No Bees, No Planet
- Hours on the Beach
- Morlocks
- Homeopathic
- Summer Reading
- Order of Angels
- 24 Hour Dream People
- Creation Myth
- Blowing Hot and Cold
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II
- 1348, by St George
- Aftertaste
- June 24th 1967
- Sussex Eye
- Im Becoming Period
- Parable
- He Speaks Home
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III
- Old Times
- The Tiers of St Martins
- Patrick Garlands Brief Lives
- Decline and Fall
- M. Courtney Soper
- For the Autochrome Archives of Albert Kahn, 1908
- After Bell Scott
- Richard Euringer (1891-1953)
- Cavafys Headstone
- On the Morning of Miltons Nativity
- The Distinguished Thing
- Clowns
- Descended from a Line of Legs
- Basking Shark
- Song of the Cardigan
- Revolution
- Allergies
- Friday, March 13th 1970
- The Suicides Committal
- Have an Egg for Beckfast
- Beerage
- Saving my Skin
- The Man who Mistook his Life for a Hat
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V
- Death of a Socialist
- Teeger
- Soixante Huit
- At the Norfolk
- Scale and Polish
- Prometheus Days
- Buster Gut Keaton
- The Poets Visiting Hours
- D Flat
- Send
- And Smell the Coffee
- Sdeath
- The Right Moment
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VI
- ID
- Venus Flaring
- O Julia, Assiduae multis odium peperere querelae
- Love etc
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VII
- Exile Again
- Satyre VI: Suffer the Street Children
- Asymmetry
- Black Sea Letter Book V
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Notes
- About the Author
Wrong Evenings
About
About the Book
Simon Jenner’s second collection bursts with the linguistic brilliance and intensely prismed spectrum of themes that made his first volume, About Bloody Time, so memorable and praised by writers as diverse as Peter Porter Robert Nye, Andrew Duncan and Jeremy Reed. Jenner‘s latest work runs memorably, harrowingly clear of his brio, registering minute constellations of grief and throws of humour. Wrong Evenings confirms Jenner’s late arrival to disturb the settled possession of things with his newer possession of urban dystopian, histories refracted by legend, arcane and contemporary culture clashing brilliantly. But also witness to suicide, social and personal breakdowns, family histories pulled out like mandrakes and outrageous literary impersonations. The already noted coruscating metaphors bite as one reviewer put it, like phantom nerves at his father’s absent leg. Behind tragedies lurk humour. Where everything is rightly as it shouldn’t be.
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Simon Jenner
Born in Cuckfield in 1959, Simon Jenner was educated at Leeds, then Cambridge where his PhD was Dreaming Fires: Oxford Poetry of the 1940s. His debut volumes of poetry were two parallel English/German texts, From Head to Foot, and Player-Time. He won a South-East Arts Bursary in 1999, was recipient of two major Royal Literary Fund grants in 2003 and 2006 and BBC commissions between 1999 and 2003. He has been Director of Survivors’ Poetry since 2003 and, from 2008-10, was a Royal Literary Fund Fellow: first, at the University of East London, then at Chichester University. His first volume for Waterloo Press was About Bloody Time. His latest volume Pessoa (Perdika) was launched at the Portuguese Embassy in June 2010 while he was Poet in the City who also appointed him Writer in Residence at Hackney Council Archives in 2011. He is currently writing a biography of 1890s poet Lionel Johnson and a third Waterloo volume Two For Joy was published in 2013.
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