Wrong Evenings

by Simon Jenner

Simon Jenner’s second collection bursts with the linguistic brilliance and intensely prismed spectrum of themes that made his first volume, 'About Bloody Time', so memorable and praised by writers as diverse as Peter Porter Robert Nye, Andrew Duncan and Jeremy Reed. Jenner‘s latest work runs memorably, harrowingly clear of his brio, registering minute constellations of grief and throws of humour. Wrong Evenings confirms Jenner’s late arrival to disturb the settled possession of things with his newer possession of urban dystopian, histories refracted by legend, arcane and contemporary culture clashing brilliantly. But also witness to suicide, social and personal breakdowns, family histories pulled out like mandrakes and outrageous literary impersonations. The already noted coruscating metaphors bite as one reviewer put it, like phantom nerves at his father’s absent leg. Behind tragedies lurk humour. Where everything is rightly as it shouldn’t be

97 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2011