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

in search of exciting and emerging talent in contemporary poetry

From the author: “The poems in this collection have been developed over a three year period

Their songs are more accurate than news reports for word of the plight of the most oppressed

a multi-disciplinary collaboration focused art collective with whom he collaborates on exhibitions

George Seferis is the great Greek poet of the twentieth century

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