Signs, Music by Raymond Antrobus
Poetry Book Society Choice Autumn 2024 Julia Bird publishing four volumes between 1964

publishing four volumes between 1964 and 1974

followed by the translation

Constantly inventive and unerringly precise

It combines a ‘wild analysis’ of Hound of the Baskervilles (whose climactic scene takes place at Grimspound)

Signs, Music by Raymond Antrobus<br><b>Poetry Book Society Choice Autumn 2024</b> Julia Bird publishing four volumes between 1964I became fatherless at 26 and a father at 35 and whenever I look out the living room window I feel myself become the child left alone in the house Centred around two lyric poems on imminent fatherhood and the birth of a child, Signs, 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