Singing About Melon by Luke Thompson Elizabeth-Jane Burnett visionary book addresses what is

visionary book addresses what is frightening

combines the poet's unerring instinct for the surprising perspective on commonplace objects or events - plants

these poems combine memories of Inshaw’s paintings

Packed full of poems

Singing About Melon by Luke Thompson Elizabeth-Jane Burnett visionary book addresses what isSinging About Melon 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 Thompsons first collection, playing with sense and nonsense, the sayable and the unsayable, as well as the saying that un says. Eels, anchorites, parrots, invertebrates, a ventriloquists dummy and a mechanical squirrel are all