Perpetual Skip

Selected by the National Poetry Library for its collection
Straight from the metropole’s edge lands—a place of boy racers with glowing undercarriages and poorly funded train station platforms—comes the interstitial world of Middex. Who better to offer Perpetual Skip than those from the margins?”
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About the book
Perpetual Skip is the new collection of poetic prose from the electrifying voice of Middex. In this bookwork, 11 sermons, once soaked in pools of echo are orphaned from the noise – taking on an urgent and compelling archive—(non) prayers stoked by vivid light. Here, words are on the move, crossing all zones—sprawling grounds of a strange borough—with broken catholic memories and colour. In Skinhead on a Raft we follow the arc of a smoked and discarded cigarette and stay with it on the floor. Discarded cigarette, discarded truths. Glue Preference honours the writers in the unlit underground yards. Stories look outwards; through a scratch-tagged bus window, to the ceiling (and beyond) of a rented flat, and into the canal—rank and receiving. Perpetual Skip is a constant. A beautiful mess with a million stories. ‘Oh it loves a mess – and the mess – is the moss – of denial.’
About the author
Middex has previously released records through Polytechnic Youth, The Tapeworm, Makina Books and Infant Tree. Their first album, No Home was released in 2018. Middex performs very occasionally. Listen to Middex.

Specification
- Format
- Paperback
- Trim Size
- 210 x 168 mm
- Pagination
- 32 pp
- Illustrations Colour
- 6 colour
- Illustrations B&W
- 8 black & white
- Publication Date
- 1 November 2020
- ISBN
- 978-1-9160608-7-6
- Designer
- Frontwards Design
- Production Spec
- Loop binding, litho printing, full colour
- Distributor
- Cornerhouse
- Trade Categories
- Poetry, Music