{"product_id":"signs-music","title":"Signs Music","description":"\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","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57398097576318,"sku":"NW9781035020850","price":10.22,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781035020850.jpg?v=1778603445","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/signs-music","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}