Singing About Melon by Luke Thompson Sarah Corbett Tishani Doshi’s poems search for

Tishani Doshi’s poems search for ways to make their peace with tide and temporality

begins with an extended sequence written in memory of her twin sister

a redemptive act where memory has meaning and the heart need never be kept indoors

Wristwatch charts a course through cancer treatment and recovery

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Singing About Melon by Luke Thompson Sarah Corbett Tishani Doshi’s poems search forSinging 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