Signs, Music

De: Raymond Antrobus

Narrado por: Raymond Antrobus

Duración: 1 h y 10 m

Resumen del Editor

‘I became fatherless at 26 and a father
at 35 and whenever I look out

the living room window I feel myself
become the child left alone in the house’

Centred around two lyric poems on imminent fatherhood and the birth of a child, Signs, Music is a book about masculinity, fatherhood, and love. The speaker, looking backwards to his late father and forwards to his new son, prepares to become a parent for the first time. Meditating on the cognitive and emotional dissonances between the ‘hypothetical’ and the ‘real’ of becoming a father, this irreversible transition causes the poet’s ‘lines [to] lead towards my father (again!)’.

Charting the ways parenthood disrupts the poet’s sense of self, and how the pain of the past triggers fears of ‘fatherly failure’, Signs, Music is a staggeringly profound collection from one of Britain’s most adept poets writing today.

©2024 Raymond Antrobus (P)2024 Macmillan Publishers International Limited

Reseñas de la Crítica

'This is a book of slow seeing which achieves a level of genuine intimacy' (Will Harris, author of RENDANG and Brother Poem)

'His poems manage to look simultaneously backwards and forwards, into the past and the future – at who we were, who we are and who we hope to be' (Joe Dunthorne, author of O Positive)