Simon Barraclough

Photon

Poems

• 1 Los Alamos Mon Amour | Translations: itde
• 2 Saturn on Seventh | Translations: itde
• 3 We’ll Always Have CGI Paris | Translations: itde
• 4 Jurassic Coast | Translations: itde
• 5 SoBe It | Translations: itde
• 6 Neptune | Translations: itde
• 7 Sol | Translations: itde
• 8 Untitled Sunspot | Translations: itde
• 9 Photon | Translations: it

Language: english

Translations: italian (Fotone)

Photon

Photon, get a move on.
a million years or more
pushing through the crowds,
from the core;
not sure I can wait eight minutes more
for you to speed through space
and hit my eye.
Penetrate me, little one,
see right through me,
screen your favourite movies
in my skull,
light my way from east to west.
My usherette.

Translations:

Language: italian

Fotone

Fotone, datti una mossa.
È un milione di anni o più
che spingi attraverso le folle,
dal nucleo;
non sono sicuro di poter aspettare otto minuti in più
perché tu acceleri attraverso lo spazio
e mi dia sull’occhio.
Penetrami, piccolo,
guarda giusto attraverso me,
proietta i tuoi film preferiti
nel mio cranio,
illumina la mia strada da est a ovest.
Mascherina mia.

Simon Barraclough

photo © Jamie Ryan

* 31.12.1966, Huddersfield, United Kingdom
lives in: London, United Kingdom

Simon Barraclough is a poet, writer, and tutor living in London but originally from Huddersfield in West Yorkshire. He is the author of the Forward Prize-finalist debut, Los Alamos Mon Amour (Salt, 2008), the limited edition 'boxed pamphlet', Bonjour Tetris (Penned in the Margins, 2010) and Neptune Blue (Salt, 2011).

He is also the editor of the collaborative Hitchcock-homage, Psycho Poetica (Sidekick Books, 2012) and co-author of The Debris Field (Sidekick Books, 2013). At the moment he is working on a full-length book and live event entitled Sunspots (due in 2015) and has been poet in residence at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory since January 2014.

photo © Josh Redman

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