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Signs, Music : Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry

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 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.


Author:

  • Raymond Antrobus

Narrator:

  • Raymond Antrobus

Format:

  • Audiobook

Duration:

  • 54 min

Language:

English

Categories:

  • Poetry
  • Contemporary poetry

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