The Street of Perfect Love
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A fantastic 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.
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A fantastic 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.
The Necropolis
When I walked into the necropolis
at Genoa I saw that every grave
had been allocated a panettone
and because the Council was in
broad terms a coalition of the left
every panettone was in a red box
and because every panettone
was in a red box I had a hunch
the old Maoist-Leninist-Stalinist
front were calling a meeting
with the dead and because the
dead were bored of being dead
they clapped and shouted
like nuns who have discovered
the libido and because nuns
have discovered the libido
I am going to bring the poem
to a sudden end. Sleep well!
Published: 02 October 2014
ISBN: 978 1 905208 2 72
Pages: 40
“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
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.
