Antrobus captures ordinary life with an episodic, unconstrained energy -- Kit Fan, The Guardian Tender . . . an unflinching and impactful look at the emotoinal dissonances of new parenthood * Publishers Weekly * Its hard to explain how much parenting can change a person, but Antrobus succeeds . . . Here is a beautiful mapping of a journey of this life that becomes this life in all of its anaphoric radiance. Each letter in these poems is bursting at the seams. -- Victoria Chang, author of With My Back to the World Unlike any poetry about becoming a father I've read . . . This is a book of slow seeing which achieves a level of genuine intimacy -- Will Harris, author of RENDANG and Brother Poem His poems manage to look simultaneously backwards and forwards, into the past and the future at who we were, who we are and who we hope to be -- Joe Dunthorne, author of O Positive [ Raymond Antrobus's] poetry transcends speech, sound, silence, words and what we are left with, when we close this astonishing book, is the vibration of the emotion on the blank page * i newspaper * Raymond Antrobus is as searching a poet as you're likely to find writing today -- Kaveh Akbar, author of Pilgrim Bell and Martyr! Signs, Music wades devotedly through weathers of joy, grief, wonderment and terrorall of which arise as fleetingly on the page as they do in the throes of new parenthood. Vulnerable and hopeful, though never expectant of certainty or utopia, Signs, Music is a prayer for a world that might yet look tenderly upon young black life -- Victoria Adukwei Bulley, author of Quiet
