Raymond Antrobus

Broschiertes Buch

Signs, Music

Poems

Beschreibung

Finalist for the 2024 T. S. Eliot Prize "Exhilarating."―Victoria Chang, author of With My Back to the World "Told with frankness and a masterful wielding of image, Signs, Music is so tenderly rendered that I found myself gasping."―Shira Erlichman, author of Odes to Lithium Acclaimed poet Raymond Antrobus returns with Signs, Music, a stunning book of poetry that captures imminent fatherhood and the arrival of a child. Structured as a two-part sequence poem, Signs, Music explores the before and after of becoming a father with tenderness and care--the cognitive and emotional dissonances between the "hypothetical" and the "real" of fatherhood, the ways our own parents shape the parents we become, and how fraught with emotion, curiosity, and recollection this irreversible transition to fatherhood makes one's inner landscape. At once searching and bright, deeply rooted and buoyant, Raymond Antrobus's Signs, Music is a moving record of the changes and challenges encompassing new parenthood and the inevitable cycles of life, death, birth, renewal, and legacy--a testament to the joy, uncertainty, and incredible love that come with bringing new life into the world.

Autor

Raymond Antrobus was born in Hackney, London, to an English mother and Jamaican father. He is the author of To Sweeten Bitter, The Perseverance, and All The Names Given. He was awarded the 2017 Geoffrey Dearmer Prize (judged by Ocean Vuong) for his poem 'Sound Machine'. In 2019 he became the first poet to be awarded the Rathbones Folio Prize for best work of literature in any genre. Other accolades include the Ted Hughes Award, the Lucille Clifton Legacy Award, and a Sunday Times/University of Warwick Young Writer of the Year Award. All The Names Given was shortlisted for the Costa Book Award for Poetry and the T. S. Eliot Prize, and several of his poems were added to the GCSE syllabus in 2022. His picture books for children are published by Walker Books (UK) and Candlewick Press (US). Antrobus is an advocate for several D/deaf charities, including DeafKidz International and the National Deaf Children's Society. He divides his time between England and New Orleans.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Zando
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 113g
• ISBN-13: 9781959030799
• ISBN-10: 1959030795
• Artikelnr.: 69926399

Rezensionen

Antrobus captures ordinary life with an episodic, unconstrained energy Kit Fan, The Guardian