Birdsong on Mars by Jon Glover Mervyn Taylor en cordée feminine

en cordée feminine

Her quest leads her to the enigmatic and sensual scholar-mystic Dr Lizzie Zephyrah with whom she undergoes a species of apprenticeship: ‘we are making a film

the poems in Ciaran Berry’s third collection consider questions of what it means to grow up somewhere and grow away from somewhere

posthumous volume was published

philosophical and human experience it confronts

Birdsong on Mars by Jon Glover Mervyn Taylor en cordée feminineThe teasing title poem of this book is about weather. Rain falls, wind cracks its cheeks as in Macbeth; the noises are drops like kisses falling, 'fallen into birdsong on Mars'. What would it sound like, be like, to hear it? The poem wants to know what it can't yet know. But as the book proceeds, the poet on a human heath, tormented by loss hears something like it, unearthly sounds on a planet without atmosphere, sound making quite another kind of