Existing Music Madeline Sonik Munce achieves what creative writing

Munce achieves what creative writing students are always nagged to do: show and not tell

Just when I think Forage is too devastating

I love the playfulness of The Chimney Stone

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Existing Music Madeline Sonik Munce achieves what creative writingDescription Trillium Book Award winner Nick Thran explores the companionship of wistful music in his fourth collection. The poems in Existing Music both celebrate and interrogate the idea of the sad song. The lyrical narrative mixes autobiographical poems with fantasies about the speakers favourite musiciansfrom the long gaps between one artists records, and grief over anothers suicide, to the marvelling at anothers ability to write beautiful songs