Signs, Music - Raymond Antrobus

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... Zobrazit více