Sound Houses

Well-loved authors and books appear suddenly; hair-raising anecdotes and football matches become occasions for elegiac comedy; and music and domestic ritual raise ghosts. This emotionally intense poetry collection explores several continents, moods, and stages of life--including the common experiences of growing up, growing older, losing a parent, being in love, and enjoying the natural world. Both formal and informal, funny and sad, these lyrical poems seek out a strangeness in the everyday.

Will Eaves is an English professor at the University of Warwick in England and the former arts editor of the Times Literary Supplement. He is the author of Nothing to Be Afraid Of and The Oversight.