Learning How to Sing by James Aitchison John Ashbery Surrounded by terrible slaughter

Surrounded by terrible slaughter

Adcock plunders family diaries

In these poems Jeremy Hooker recalls his parents and grandparents

Residual Synonyms for the Name of God performs the proliferation of language and culture in our late capitalist moment as a residual structure of a religious past

Other poems were written episodically over a number of years

Learning How to Sing by James Aitchison John Ashbery Surrounded by terrible slaughterLearning How to Sing is a new collection of poems written since The Gates of Light was published by Mica Press in 2016. Learning How to Sing extends James Aitchisons celebration of the natural world, and in his poems on islands and seaways the celebration is a form of pilgrimage. His compositions encompass other topics: for example James Aitchison on time ranges from contemplating the origins of life to recognising the uncertain future of our world;