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

and a testament to tenderness in the face of violence

the kind that refuses to leave us: a book wherein historical trauma is all too real

Through the arc of Family

Should the stories of the past be told

and essential writing-desk companion for poets at all stages

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