Singing About Melon by Luke Thompson Mary Frances the very means by which

the very means by which we extend our empathies into the world – art

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Singing About Melon by Luke Thompson Mary Frances the very means by whichSinging 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