{"product_id":"signs-music-raymond-antrobus","title":"Signs, Music (Raymond Antrobus)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE T.S. ELIOT PRIZE FOR POETRY\u003cbr\u003ePOETRY BOOK SOCIETY CHOICE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'I became fatherless at 26 and a father\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eat 35 and whenever I look out\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ethe living room window I feel myself\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ebecome the child left alone in the house'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCentred around two lyric poems on imminent fatherhood and the birth of a child, \u003ci\u003eSigns\u003c\/i\u003e, 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!)'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCharting the ways parenthood disrupts the poet's sense of self, and how the pain of the past triggers fears of 'fatherly failure', \u003ci\u003eSigns\u003c\/i\u003e, Music is a staggeringly profound collection from one of Britain's most adept poets writing today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eRaymond Antrobus was born in Hackney, London to an English mother and Jamaican father. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eTo Sweeten Bitter, The Perseverance, All The Names Given\u003c\/i\u003e and the children's picture book \u003ci\u003eCan Bears Ski? \u003c\/i\u003eA number of his poems were added to the UK's GCSE syllabus in 2022. The BBC Radio 4 documentary \u003ci\u003eInventions In Sound, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich accompanies \u003ci\u003eAll The Names Given\u003c\/i\u003e, was produced by Falling Tree Productions and won a Best Documentary Award at the 2021 Third Coast International Audio Festival.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), Trade Paperback, Englisch, 96 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65851761164637,"sku":"K097114551","price":11.8,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/9711455100001A.jpg?v=1788810104","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/signs-music-raymond-antrobus","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}