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On Trampolining
Rebecca Perry
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R341
R277
Discovery Miles 2 770
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When Rebecca Perry was growing up, she competed nationally and
internationally as a trampolinist. This immersive and compelling
book deftly blends memoir and lyrical nonfiction to explore a time
she 'chose air over earth' and intensive schedules of practice.
From the aerial views of English sports halls and international
stadiums, to the texture of a fingernail pressed against silver
beads on a leotard, Perry's explorations are immersive, sensuous,
funny, traumatic and tender. In 'On Trampolining', Perry weaves
arresting tales on pain, expectation, flight and grief in relation
to competitive sport, memory and the body. 'A short, taut
masterclass in poetic memoir. Beautifully universal about girlhood,
sport, changing bodies, the borderlands of childhood play and adult
expectation.'--Max Porter; 'In her elegant and intelligent
meditation on the art of trampolining, Rebecca Perry writes
movingly on pain, grief, love, and self-will. The beauty and
economy of her sentences, and her frank but unselfpitying attention
to the power and frailty of the body, recalls the work of Maggie
Nelson and Gillian Rose, but is entirely hers. I loved it'--Sarah
Perry; 'On Trampolining is a jewel of an essay, where like the most
gifted artisan, Rebecca Perry reconstructs shattered pieces of a
life spent loftily, into a fragile work of quivering wonder, of
flesh and bone and sparkling clarity. I read it swiftly, holding my
breath the whole way through.'--Innua Ellams; 'A tremendous,
compelling read. It sheds light on a sport I know nothing about,
and the pressures it takes to be even very, very good at something,
let alone close to the best in the world.'--Rishi Dastidar
A collection of three distinct parts, the poems in Rebecca Perry's
Stone Fruit nonetheless speak across their many common
preoccupations: memory, grief, the fallibility of the physical
form, our connection to and place in the world, natural and
otherwise. Opening with a study of a girl in a miniature portrait,
expanding into lyrical prose pieces and closing with a reflective
long poem - part elegy and part reflective essay on competitive
trampolining - the poems are united by a desire to pay absolute
attention to both the material and inner world. The worlds within
this collection appear to be teeming with life - crabs push through
sand, wasps swarm on meat; and forms change - bones are replaced
with metal, a human head transfigures into that of a muntjac - but
there is nothing frantic in this shifting. The care taken in the
poems to properly look, to focus on stillness and acts of
interrogation, often gives the feeling that they are being viewed
through glass, or placed in a frame. If this book could be said to
have a central demand of the reader, it is to consider whether they
will allow themselves to attend to the pain and joy of giving due
reflection to what is happening in the world around us, in their
lives and the lives of others. And what the cost of that is. Stone
Fruit is Rebecca Perry's second collection, and is a Poetry Book
Society Recommendation. Her first collection Beauty/Beauty won the
Michael Murphy Memorial Prize 2017. It was also shortlisted for the
T.S. Eliot Prize, Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize and
Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Prize, and was also a Poetry Book
Society Recommendation.
The world of Beauty/Beauty is 'built from the nose/out, like a
painting', accumulating its various feelings, ideas, objects,
disappointments and joys to the point of almost overflowing.
Preoccupied with demise and loss, as well as reimagination and
regeneration, Rebecca Perry's debut collection has the duality and
symmetry of its title at its core. Beauty/Beauty is a book with
tenderness running through its veins, exploring salvation,
reparation and the fullness of being alive; the difficulty of
defining what love is, the heartbreak, the faraway friends, the
overwhelming abundance of things in museums. It is alive with
memories, with old loves hanging around in the corners of dark
rooms, ghost mouths hidden inside the mouth you are kissing, and
eulogies to dearly departed pets. Each poem creates its own tiny
world to be lived in and explored; a stegosaurus is adored, a
million silver spiders play dead, a list of flowers is not really a
list of flowers, adorable dogs want to be friends, the flightless
grow wings, and the stars turn green. Beauty/Beauty was a Poetry
Book Society Recommendation, won the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize
2017, and was also shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Fenton
Aldeburgh First Collection Prize and the Seamus Heaney Centre for
Poetry Prize for First Full Collection.
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beaches (Pamphlet)
Rebecca Perry
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R181
R146
Discovery Miles 1 460
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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In 2011, Poetry Wales magazine awarded the Poetry Wales Purple
Moose Poetry Prize for the third time. The judges, Zoe Skoulding
and John Barnie, made their selection of the best short collection
of poems, submitted anonymously, with the winner receiving GBP250
and publication of their world by Seren, Wales' leading literary
publisher. The 2011 winning collection is 'little armoured' by
Rebecca Perry. "little armoured is a brilliant book, which emits
light and heat like the electric heater one of its poems describes
as a humming like a bee in the corner of the room, its orangeness
brighter than your eyes expect. Its miniatures and transforming
images sometimes recall Elizabeth Bishop, its tonally various
sequences Paul Muldoon, but this is a young poet who already
discovered her own voice in these exact and tender, smart and
moving poems." John McAuliffe Don't forget to subscribe to Poetry
Wales Magazine!
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