Existing Music Madeline Sonik "Not only does this enchanting

"Not only does this enchanting collection of poems defy expectations and adventurously experiment with stanza forms and syntax

Writing from the centre of the universe

there appear to be few or no religious projections

Beautiful Beautiful stakes out new ground in the literary scene

Existing Music Madeline Sonik "Not only does this enchantingDescription Trillium Book Award winner Nick Thran explores the companionship of wistful music in his fourth collection. The poems in Existing Music both celebrate and interrogate the idea of the sad song. The lyrical narrative mixes autobiographical poems with fantasies about the speakers favourite musiciansfrom the long gaps between one artists records, and grief over anothers suicide, to the marvelling at anothers ability to write beautiful songs