Signs, Music
12 September 2024Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
‘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...
Details
12 September 202496 pages
9781035020850Imprint: Picador
Reviews
This is a book of slow seeing which achieves a level of genuine intimacyWill 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 beJoe Dunthorne, author of O Positive
[Raymond Antrobus's] poetry transcends speech, sound, silence, words – and what we are left with, when we close this astonishing book, is the vibration of the emotion on the blank pagei newspaper
Raymond Antrobus is as searching a poet as you're likely to find writing todayKaveh Akbar, author of Pilgrim Bell and Martyr!
