Signs, Music

''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.

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Antrobus captures ordinary life with an episodic, unconstrained energy Kit Fan, The Guardian

Product details

• Authors: Raymond Antrobus, Antrobus Raymond
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.09.2024
• EAN: 9781035020850
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3502085-0
• No. of pages: 96
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 196 mm x 8 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Family, Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards), Modern and contemporary poetry / poems