Singing About Melon

Singing About Melon opens with a call for silence: 'Silenzio'. This is the self-defeating shout of the guards in the Basilica of St Francis in Assisi, where several of the poems are placed. It is a call that echoes through this collection, playing with sense and nonsense, the sayable and the unsayable, as well as the saying that un-says.

About the author

Luke Thompson is a writer from Cornwall. His books include poetry pamphlets The Clearing and Robot Squirrel, as well as a huge biography of the poet Jack Clemo entitled Clay Phoenix, a slim biography of the Renaissance rhinoceros Ganda entitled Rhinoceros, and the novella Eels, which was part of a broader series of publications, events and performances on the endangered European eel. Luke teaches at Falmouth University and is co-editor of Guillemot Press.

Product details

• Authors: Luke Thompson
• Publisher: Shearsman Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2020
• EAN: 9781848617353
• ISBN: 978-1-84861-735-3
• No. of pages: 80
• Dimensions: 203 mm x 203 mm x 5 mm
• Weight: 155 g
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama