Raymond Antrobus: Signs, Music
Event start date
Sep
04
2024
The acclaimed poet and author launches his new collection, exploring masculinity and fatherhood through lyric sequences.
‘I became fatherless at 26 and a father
at 35 and whenever I look out
the living room window I feel myself
become the child left alone in the house’
Centred around two poetic sequences about imminent fatherhood and the birth of a child, Signs, Music is a profound book about masculinity, fatherhood, and love.
The speaker, looking backwards to his late father and forwards to his new son, prepares to become a parent for the first time. Meditating on the cognitive and emotional dissonances between the ‘hypothetical’ and the ‘real’ of becoming a father, this irreversible transition causes the poet’s ‘lines [to] lead towards my father (again!)’.
Raymond Antrobus was born in Hackney to an English mother and Jamaican father. He is the author of To Sweeten Bitter, The Perseverance, All The Names Given and the children’s picture books Can Bears Ski? and Terrible Horses. A number of his poems were added to the UK’s GCSE syllabus in 2022.
- Event Organiser/Organisation
- Southbank Centre
- Start Date/Time
- Wednesday 04 September 2024 at 7:45pm
- End Date/Time
- Wednesday 04 September 2024 at 8:45pm
- Venue Address
- Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX
- Event Website
- https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/literature-poetry/raymond-antrobus-signs-music?eventId=991280&utm_source=deaf%20unity&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=MAR_2406_Unlimited2024
- Booking Instructions
- Age recommendation For ages 16+ Access information This event is a Relaxed Performance. These performances have a relaxed approach to noise and movement in the space, and you are free to enter and exit during the performances. A chill-out space and noise-cancelling headphones are available. This event is British Sign Language interpreted (BSL). To book tickets for BSL interpretation, email accesslist@southbankcentre.co.uk or call us on 020 3879 9555.
