Birdsong on Mars by Jon Glover Peter Gizzi in search of exciting and

in search of exciting and emerging talent in contemporary poetry

directness

hence this new revised edition which replaces some poems with new or previously undiscovered work (highlighted in the contents list)

Simon Smith's

Ian Crockatt succeeds in catching Rilke's blend of crafted sensuality and inward-focused spiritual searching

Birdsong on Mars by Jon Glover Peter Gizzi in search of exciting andThe 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