The Slip by Simon Perril Charles Tomlinson not quite able to master

not quite able to master the ‘diligence of having a body’

The Poetry Translation Centre translates

Readers encountering his work for the first time will encounter moments of reality too strong to be stored on film

creating what she calls in Ban en Banlieue (2015) a ‘Literature that is not made from literature’

The Slip by Simon Perril Charles Tomlinson not quite able to masterThe Slip is the final volume of Perrils trilogy excavating the crime scene at the centre of archaic lyric. We cant know whether ancient Greeces first lyric poet Archilochus really used his Iambic prowess to curse Lycambes family to its grave for a broken marriage oath. But neither can we doubt that his poetic legacy, in Antiquity and beyond, was a by word for judgements over the acceptability, or otherwise, of indulgence in poetic harm; just as the