Birdsong on Mars by Jon Glover Philip Terry Often awkward

Often awkward

Tall tales combine with a conversational style

' - Frances Leviston

Confront the horrors

When The River in the Sky opens

Birdsong on Mars by Jon Glover Philip Terry Often awkwardThe 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