Singing 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 Thompson's 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 ventriloquist's dummy and a mechanical squirrel are all deployed
in this exploration of sense and silence through themes of bodily
identity, grief, the divine and other species. "A rare book - both
strange and exhilarating; poems which bore and drill into the
reader's mind much like the earthworms, eels and other tiny guests
vibrating on the pages." --Mona Arshi. "Skilfully precise and
playfully mischievous, these poems embrace the spiritual, the
cartoonish and everything in between with a mindful sensibility."
--Isabel Galleymore
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