Sonogram {soundwriting} by Emily Barker Julie O'Callaghan and a testament to tenderness

and a testament to tenderness in the face of violence

Világos awoke every night half an hour before midnight and left

Through the arc of Family

Orphic experiments in the “collectivization of feeling”: “I want everybody out there to sing along

the gunshot becomes the last thing the citizens hear - in that moment

Sonogram {soundwriting} by Emily Barker Julie O'Callaghan and a testament to tendernessSonogram {soundwriting} by Emily Barker is a structurally inventive collection in which lyric, score, setlist, dream record and field note braid into a poetics of voice under pressure. Written from the itineraries of touring and the aftermaths of fire, flood and political drift, these poems move between venues, coastlines and hospital rooms, tracing how sound carries memory, desire, and damage. Barkers technique is musically alert and structurally