{"product_id":"signs-music","title":"Signs, Music","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\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","brand":"Pan Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55868068102479,"sku":"9781035020850","price":18.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0061\/0372\/8217\/files\/9781035020850_1-signs-music.jpg?v=1757042593","url":"https:\/\/www.suomalainen.com\/products\/signs-music","provider":"Suomalainen.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}