Signs, Music by Raymond Antrobus
Poetry Book Society Choice Autumn 2024 Marius Kociejowski shot through with synaesthesia and

shot through with synaesthesia and fever dream imagery

the title sequence pieces together archival fragments into a lyric essay about Alice Kober

on Haywire

These poems are so full of life even as they acknowledge the stark realities that are a risk to life – also the very real presence of death

The collection is suffused with references to music – mainly Jamaican popular music

Signs, Music by Raymond Antrobus<br><b>Poetry Book Society Choice Autumn 2024</b> Marius Kociejowski shot through with synaesthesia andI 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