Birdsong on Mars by Jon Glover Mervyn Taylor the poems in Ciaran Berry’s

the poems in Ciaran Berry’s third collection consider questions of what it means to grow up somewhere and grow away from somewhere

The title sequence

and so he glows in the dark

Roger Robinson

philosophical and human experience it confronts

Birdsong on Mars by Jon Glover Mervyn Taylor the poems in Ciaran Berry’sThe teasing title poem of this book is about weather. Rain falls, wind cracks its cheeks as in Macbeth; the noises are drops like kisses falling, 'fallen into birdsong on Mars'. What would it sound like, be like, to hear it? The poem wants to know what it can't yet know. But as the book proceeds, the poet on a human heath, tormented by loss hears something like it, unearthly sounds on a planet without atmosphere, sound making quite another kind of