Signs, music : [poems] / Raymond Antrobus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Antrobus, Raymond, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sign language--Poetry.

Sign language.

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

78 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Picador, 2024.

Summary:

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.-- Publisher's synopsis

Notes:

"Poetry Book Society choice".

ISBN:

1035020858

9781035020850

OCLC:

1399164672