Singing About Melon by Luke Thompson Sarah Corbett with its multi-coloured seas

with its multi-coloured seas

'What a joy to read these poems and be led by Jane Commane through Edgelands Midlands – its secret geologies and ghostly factories

Wristwatch charts a course through cancer treatment and recovery

begins with an extended sequence written in memory of her twin sister

Cuirt Festival Director

Singing About Melon by Luke Thompson Sarah Corbett with its multi-coloured seasSinging 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