{"product_id":"singing-about-melon-luke-thompson-9781848617353","title":"Singing About Melon","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSinging About Melon\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Skilfully precise and playfully mischievous, these poems embrace the spiritual, the cartoonish and everything in between with a mindful sensibility.\" --Isabel Galleymore\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Luke Thompson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1848617356\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781848617353\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Shearsman Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/16\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.31lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 8.00w x 0.17d","brand":"Luke Thompson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48486200770815,"sku":"9781848617353","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2da9fc57-4e58-4e1a-b600-ae3a972b2d62.jpg?v=1778054319","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/singing-about-melon-luke-thompson-9781848617353","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}