Please come along to help Simon launch his first collection
Los Alamos Mon Amour
Thursday April 10th
The Gallery
Foyles Bookshop
113-119 Charing Cross Road
6.30 p.m. to 8.30 p.m.
RSVP simonbarraclough@aol.com
?Sharing with other admirers of the late Michael Donaghy a winning propensity for using mythical America as a lexical paint-box, Simon Barraclough stands out even among the stand-outs in his readiness to make a knowing reference to the popular arts twice per line. But the best proof is here: poems with the unmistakeable stamp of a vision asserting itself through vocabulary.?
?CLIVE JAMES
?Simon Barraclough offers up a poetry of contrasts: he is a relaxed formalist, a hands-off sensualist, a subtle polemicist and a humorist you can take seriously. All these strands are brought together by a deft hand under the watch of a filmic eye.?
?RODDY LUMSDEN
?Barraclough can turn a world-weary hangover into a zoetrope of colour and shadow. He can move you with the precision of his imagery and rhyme and shock you with a sudden correlation. Throughout this marvellously unsettling noirish collection, Barraclough never succumbs to introspection: even in the bleakest of storms, his poetry remains determined to look outwards, to engage and entrance.?
?LUKE KENNARD
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