{"id":852,"date":"2010-04-23T10:54:16","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T10:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/?p=852"},"modified":"2017-12-02T23:40:27","modified_gmt":"2017-12-02T23:40:27","slug":"introducing-simon-barraclough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/2010\/04\/introducing-simon-barraclough\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing… Simon Barraclough"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here at Penned in the Margins we’re thrilled to announce that we will be publishing Simon Barraclough’s Bonjour Tetris<\/strong><\/em> next month. This is the first in our new series of hand-made,<\/strong> limited edition chapbooks<\/strong>. Simon, a Yorkshireman living in London,\u00a0is one of our favourite\u00a0poets; his debut Los Alamos Mon Amour<\/a>\u00a0startled with its\u00a0style, wit and grace, and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Find out more about Simon here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Simon is a contributor to Radio 4’s The Film Programme and The Long View, and Radio 3’s The Verb\u00a0– in fact you could say he’s something of a serial commissionee. Bonjour Tetris<\/em> brings together the best of his commissioned works since 2008, with poems on the subjects of film, Kings Cross and computer games. Always, you’ll agree, a killer combo.<\/p>\n

Here’s a sneak preview for your delectation.<\/p>\n

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Bride of Pinbot<\/h3>\n

Fritz Languidly you\u2019d lean against the wall.
\nMake me live! Make me sing!
\n<\/em>We fingered pelvic flippers, shooting steel
\naround fallopians into your eyes and mouth
\nto try to flip your face from chrome to flesh.
\nNow I see you! I can speak!
\n<\/em>The pounding heart, the gunshot crack
\nof Extra Life, arpeggios of thrill until
\nyou wailed that you were turning back.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Watch this space for more news on Bonjour Tetris<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here at Penned in the Margins we’re thrilled to announce that we will be publishing Simon Barraclough’s Bonjour Tetris next month. This is the first in our new series of hand-made, limited edition chapbooks. Simon, a Yorkshireman living in London,\u00a0is one of our favourite\u00a0poets; his debut Los Alamos Mon Amour\u00a0startled with its\u00a0style, wit and grace, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16237,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions\/16237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}