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    Signs, Music

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    ISBN: 9781035020850
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    AuthorAntrobus, Raymond
    Pub Date12/09/2024
    BindingPaperback
    Pages96
    Publisher: PICADOR
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    An astounding collection from the author of the T.S. Eliot Prize-shortlisted All The Names Given, Signs, Music is a beautiful series of lyric sequences about masculinity and fatherhood.

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE T.S. ELIOT PRIZE FOR POETRY
    POETRY BOOK SOCIETY CHOICE

    '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.

    'This is transformative writing creating a new cultural landscape. Antrobus makes us hear between the lines through poems well-crafted with emotional intelligence' - Linton Kwesi Johnson, Mark Oakley and Clare Shaw, judges of the 2018 Ted Hughes Prize.