Existing Music Product Form:Paperback / softback They're muscular and tender and

They're muscular and tender and musically rich

The last story

and lend to the endearing quality of his stories

second novel from Andrew Binks

"In his debut collection

Existing Music Product Form:Paperback / softback They're muscular and tender andDescription 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