Peckinpah Suite by Paul Munden
Peckinpah Suite by Paul Munden

$19.95

Peckinpah Suite

Paul Munden checks into the suite of rooms in the Murray Hotel, Livingston, Montana, once occupied by Sam Peckinpah, legendary director of The Wild Bunch, Straw Dogs, and other notorious classics. For the poet, it is an act of homage and immersion, not without risk. Addressing Peckinpah directly, he reflects on the films – and the turmoil of their making – in poems both personal and finely attuned to Peckinpah’s own experience.

At the heart of the book is a vision of Peckinpah’s long-cherished but never realised project: Castaway. This more extensive piece bears witness to the director caught up in his own nightmarish script, a dark journey of self-discovery, shadowed by the poet. The overall Suite is a highly informed and structured work that wrestles with the nature of an uncompromising talent, revered yet often misunderstood.

‘I read Paul Munden’s Peckinpah Suite and was so moved by his sublime accomplishments that I immediately reread it. Peckinpah Suite immediately became one of my favorite works of poetry. Munden’s deep research into the life and works of Sam Peckinpah is mightily impressive.’
W.K. Stratton ,author of the award-winning bestseller The Wild Bunch: Sam Peckinpah, a Revolution in Hollywood, and the Making of a Legendary Film

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In this volume of prose poetry, five poets approach grief in different ways; the emotion sometimes recognisable, sometimes disguised. Their works grieve for those who are gone while they traverse the idea of the abiding presence of loss. If a melancholy sense of absence is occasionally registered in these poems, there is humour too. And, more generally, there are many salutary expressions of grief-inflected yet powerfully present feelings of love and desire.

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Unclassified: Nigel Kennedy in Chapters & Verse
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Unclassified: Nigel Kennedy in Chapters & Verse

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As my book became increasingly eccentric, I thought ‘yes, that’s as it should be’. How else to do justice to a maverick musician, described by his one-time girlfriend Brix Smith as ‘a cross between Mozart and Keith Moon’?
—Paul Munden
For all its eccentricity, this book – the first ever study of Nigel Kennedy’s exceptional talent – delves into complex questions: about the relationship between so-called genius and unconventional behaviour; the true purpose of education; the freedom of the interpreter; connections between music and poetry, music and sport; and the role of the artist as advocate of political and humanitarian causes.
This is a book that revels in the non-conformative nature of its subject, and the principle of living life with truly individual purpose. It speaks to fans and detractors alike; to musicians, both professional and amateur; also to the general, curious reader not only about music but a wealth of associated cultural issues.
‘It’s one motherfucker of a book!’- Nigel Kennedy
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Amplitude

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Whether in the Venetian footsteps of Vivaldi, at the birth of the Owen and Sassoon violins or the score of a Sam Peckinpah film, these poems present a wealth of musical scenarios, all interconnected in their themes, tonality and form. Their reverberations reach across time and space, from England and Italy to the Australian outback, with the visual arts also in the mix. And yet the core of this book is deeply personal, the poet present as a ten-year-old boy, lover, grandfather – or anachronistic witness – at the various trials of life through which creativity and even humour somehow flourishes.

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Five Ages

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Hesiod’s Five Ages famously proides a vision of the decline of human society that has resonated for many centuries. In this anthology, five poets take Hesiod’s versions of the golden, silver, bronze, heroic and iron ages as their starting points to craft five individual ‘chapbooks’ of prose poetry – not only exploring notions from Hesiodbut also venturing into many new concepts that reconceptualise these ages.These twenty-first century poems challenge many of the archaic Greek poet’s assumptions and ideas, writing back to the ancient world with bravura while employing quintessentially contemporary inflections and preoccupations.

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Paul Munden checks into the suite of rooms in the Murray Hotel, Livingston, Montana, once occupied by Sam Peckinpah, legendary director of The Wild Bunch, Straw Dogs, and other notorious classics. For the poet, it is an act of homage and immersion, not without risk. Addressing Peckinpah directly, he reflects on the films – and the turmoil of their making – in poems both personal and finely attuned to Peckinpah’s own experience.

At the heart of the book is a vision of Peckinpah’s long-cherished but never realised project: Castaway. This more extensive piece bears witness to the director caught up in his own nightmarish script, a dark journey of self-discovery, shadowed by the poet. The overall Suite is a highly informed and structured work that wrestles with the nature of an uncompromising talent, revered yet often misunderstood.

‘I read Paul Munden’s Peckinpah Suite and was so moved by his sublime accomplishments that I immediately reread it. Peckinpah Suite immediately became one of my favorite works of poetry. Munden’s deep research into the life and works of Sam Peckinpah is mightily impressive. He nails every topic he addresses. But beyond that, Peckinpah Suite is an extraordinary work of verse. Munden is absolutely a first-rate poet. An unobtrusive yet sophisticated formalism is at work here. Hats off to Munden for managing it. I predict that Peckinpah Suite is a work that will be read for many years to come. Highly recommended.’
W.K. Stratton, author of the award-winning bestseller The Wild Bunch: Sam Peckinpah, a Revolution in Hollywood, and the Making of a Legendary Film