Signs, Music (eBook)

Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry

Raymond Antrobus (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
Pan Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-0350-2086-7 (ISBN)

Infos

SHORTLISTED FOR THE T.S. ELIOT PRIZE FOR POETRYPOETRY BOOK SOCIETY CHOICE'I became fatherless at 26 and a fatherat 35 and whenever I look outthe living room window I feel myselfbecome 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.9.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• ISBN-10: 1-0350-2086-6 / 1035020866
• ISBN-13: 978-1-0350-2086-7 / 9781035020867