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If I could be that boy,
over the desolate fields.
after the roads — uneven and achingly long.
Seamus Heaney, "Station Island XII"
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the night before.
hypnotised. Paul Perry. The poems are a coalition of imaginative flair and formal discipline. And so, white winged students waiting for the shabby, "The Drowning of the Saints is a remarkable triumph. Paul Perry was born and raised in Jarrow, where he pursued a career in photography.
His work has appeared worldwide on television.
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Now they stood around the ring,
and a ten pence hidden in mashed potato.
Curiosities of County Durham: A County Guide to the Unusual, Historic England: Newcastle: Unique Images from the Archives of Historic England, Jarrow at Work: People and Industries Through the Years. Every day, from this day until kingdom come.
the ashen wood crumble
The morning after Halloween
No mean feat. A man was sitting on a bench in the garden.
Publication Date: Saturday, November 01, 2003.
and the others go home to barmbrack
He won the Hennessy New Irish Writer of the Year Award in 1998.
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In this sense he is a prodigiously gifted poet.
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if that was me, I would stay
Paul Perry was born in Dublin in 1972.
a dark patch of grizzled soil and ash,
It was Juan.
cracks and howls of the night before
About Paul Perry: Paul Perry was born and raised in Jarrow, where he pursued a career in photography.
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in Comparative Literature from Brown University and has been a James Michener Fellow of Creative Writing at The University of Miami, and a C. Glenn Cambor Fellow of Poetry at The University of Houston.
Paul has written a number of local history books over the last twenty years.
stoking the last popping embers
Each poem bristles with life and longing, intelligence and wit.
one of those boys is me:
"The English language belongs to us. curious to witness
to a shuffling flame.
The morning after Halloween
...that things are passing from our lives.
we watch the rhythmic sway of the flame,
arrow-shaped and above them numerous small.
Poetry Ireland Review.
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we had swallowed, like a voice
More than that I remember the flat-seed pouch: weed some call it, as if to flourish and seed.
or the memory of a voice,
Here's a photo of us: Robert Graves's office.
The very same Juan as 'To Juan on the Winter Solstice'. Perry\'s themes include unique presentations into the spiritual realm, near-death experiences, visions and miracles, paranormal and the years Jesus spent in Egypt.
In 1966 he began amassing a collection of images of his hometown and surrounding area, which is now in excess of 30,000.
Paul Perry started his own production company in 2005 with the goal of making innovative films that matter.
to where the fire had witched
like a generative disease, an affliction. in graceful, haunted movement
From the window dreaming,
You are raking at dead fires...", The Drowning of the Saints, Reviewed by David Arnold, The Drowning of the Saints, Reviewed by Steve Mueske.
A dolmen of fire.
Monday, August 26, 2013.
with the slightest hush of my breath.
Imagine them: green, slender, from crown to root.
Paul Perry is the co-author of several New York Times bestsellers, including Evidence of the Afterlife, Closer to the Light, Transformed by the Light, and Saved by the Light which was made into a popular movie by Fox.
These are lines and stanzas and poems that signal wisdom beyond his youth. I, too, left the fire and heard the wind
scatter and fade
Monday 1st June.
Though I may have wanted to spark some flame
Overhead, there was the sound of pine shifting.
of a passage from this world to the next.