Learning How to Sing by James Aitchison John Ashbery each work of art inhabits

each work of art inhabits the same house

Surrounded by terrible slaughter

unspoken or undone – through the concept of negative space

Theresa ’s quest to search both the living world and the dead for answers to the purpose and predicament of her existence are a journey worth joining her on

deeply humane and spiritually profound

Learning How to Sing by James Aitchison John Ashbery each work of art inhabitsLearning How to Sing is a new collection of poems written since The Gates of Light was published by Mica Press in 2016. Learning How to Sing extends James Aitchisons celebration of the natural world, and in his poems on islands and seaways the celebration is a form of pilgrimage. His compositions encompass other topics: for example James Aitchison on time ranges from contemplating the origins of life to recognising the uncertain future of our world;