Singing About Melon
Paperback 80 pages English Oct 16, 2020
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Singing About Melon opens with a call for silence: 'Silenzio'. This is the self-defeating shout of the guards in the Basilica of St Francis in Assisi, where several of the poems are placed. It is a call that echoes through Luke Thompson's first collection, playing with sense and nonsense, the sayable and the unsayable, as well as the saying that un-says. Eels, anchorites, parrots, invertebrates, a ventriloquist's dummy and a mechanical squirrel are all deployed in this exploration of sense and silence through themes of bodily identity, grief, the divine and other species. "A rare book - both strange and exhilarating; poems which bore and drill into the reader's mind much like the earthworms, eels and other tiny guests vibrating on the pages." --Mona Arshi. "Skilfully precise and playfully mischievous, these poems embrace the spiritual, the cartoonish and everything in between with a mindful sensibility." --Isabel Galleymore
- Author:
- Luke Thompson
- Publisher:
- Shearsman Books
- Publication Date:
- Oct 16, 2020
- Number of pages:
- 80 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1848617356
- ISBN-13:
- 9781848617353