Singing About Melon by Luke Thompson Sarah Corbett ' – Rose Solari

' – Rose Solari

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

Divided into four ‘compasses’

Cuirt Festival Director

honing his prescriptions all the time

Singing About Melon by Luke Thompson Sarah Corbett ' – Rose SolariSinging 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