Description
A fantastic new chapbook from a poet much celebrated for his tonal control and simultaneous considerations of matters mordant and gleeful. Poems here are at once funny and melancholy; the style is inimitable: Stannard takes his readers through a range of emotions via a witty and wonderful tight-rope walking act with language
About the Author
Julian Stannard spent many years teaching American and English Literature at the University of Genoa. He has a PhD from UEA and is now a Reader in Creative Writing at the University of Winchester. Previous publications include Rina's War (Peterloo, 2001), The Red Zone (Peterloo, 2007) and The Parrots of Villa Gruber Discover Lapis Lazuli (Salmon, 2011). He co-edited The Palm Beach Effect: Reflections on Michael Hofmann (CB Editions, 2013). He was awarded the Troubadour Prize in 2010 and reviews for the TLS, the Guardian and Poetry Review.
Reviews
"There's an air of luxurious melancholy about these poems, a languid play of feelings and associations, that sets them wholly against the uptight, earnest strain in British writing and that appeals to me warmly. They can be very funny, too." - Christopher Reid "Never have near-death experiences been rendered with such baffled detachment. Julian Stannard is unique, and I go to his poems for pleasures of indirection, appetite, curiosity and a sort of beleaguered fun that I can find nowhere else." - Charles Boyle "The poetry of Julian Stannard is a fresh and delectable pleasure because he is a flaneur without alienation a wit whose sharpness comes at nobody else's expense, and a gourmand with a gleeful sense of mortality. These are poems to devour." - Don Share "Like Frank O'Hara, Stannard can shift from breathless joy to heartbreak without warning. As in 'La Douceur de la Nuit' this new collection performs a 'dance with melancholy', and is a welcome addition to one of the most unabashedly entertaining bodies of work in contemporary British poetry." - Declan Ryan THE STREET OF PERFECT LOVE
Book Information
ISBN 9781905208272
Author Julian Stannard
Format Paperback
Page Count 32
Imprint Worple Press
Publisher Worple Press
Dimensions(mm) 215mm * 135mm * 3mm
About the Author
Julian Stannard spent many years teaching American and English Literature at the University of Genoa. He has a PhD from UEA and is now a Reader in Creative Writing at the University of Winchester. Previous publications include Rina's War (Peterloo, 2001), The Red Zone (Peterloo, 2007) and The Parrots of Villa Gruber Discover Lapis Lazuli (Salmon, 2011). He co-edited The Palm Beach Effect: Reflections on Michael Hofmann (CB Editions, 2013). He was awarded the Troubadour Prize in 2010 and reviews for the TLS, the Guardian and Poetry Review.
Reviews
"There's an air of luxurious melancholy about these poems, a languid play of feelings and associations, that sets them wholly against the uptight, earnest strain in British writing and that appeals to me warmly. They can be very funny, too." - Christopher Reid "Never have near-death experiences been rendered with such baffled detachment. Julian Stannard is unique, and I go to his poems for pleasures of indirection, appetite, curiosity and a sort of beleaguered fun that I can find nowhere else." - Charles Boyle "The poetry of Julian Stannard is a fresh and delectable pleasure because he is a flaneur without alienation a wit whose sharpness comes at nobody else's expense, and a gourmand with a gleeful sense of mortality. These are poems to devour." - Don Share "Like Frank O'Hara, Stannard can shift from breathless joy to heartbreak without warning. As in 'La Douceur de la Nuit' this new collection performs a 'dance with melancholy', and is a welcome addition to one of the most unabashedly entertaining bodies of work in contemporary British poetry." - Declan Ryan THE STREET OF PERFECT LOVE
Book Information
ISBN 9781905208272
Author Julian Stannard
Format Paperback
Page Count 32
Imprint Worple Press
Publisher Worple Press
Dimensions(mm) 215mm * 135mm * 3mm
