Signs, Music
12 September 2024Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
Read by the author, Raymond Antrobus.
‘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...
Details
12 September 202454 minutes
Raymond Antrobus
9781035020881Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Antrobus captures ordinary life with an episodic, unconstrained energyKit Fan, The Guardian
Tender . . . an unflinching and impactful look at the emotoinal dissonances of new parenthoodPublishers Weekly
It’s hard to explain how much parenting can change a person, but Antrobus succeeds . . . Here is a beautiful mapping of a journey of this life that becomes this life in all of its anaphoric radiance. Each letter in these poems is bursting at the seams.Victoria Chang, author of With My Back to the World
Unlike any poetry about becoming a father I've read . . . This is a book of slow seeing which achieves a level of genuine intimacyWill Harris, author of RENDANG and Brother Poem
