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The poems in Sound Never Dies & Other Poems all invoke sound in one way or another; from the impossible to reproduce rill of an Australian magpie's morning song in One For Sorrow, to the ancient hammer blows Marconi never hoped he one day might hear of the title poem; from the strained, pleading vernacular of a miracle's unlikely testimonials in Petals, to a statue's almost imperceptible exhalations in Vainglory Morning. Here you will find the sombre rattle of trains, the death songs of whales, the clank of last night's dishes, and the ricochet thunder of a child's toy drum. Here, although the voice may haltand tremble, although the words may shy and still, nevertheless, the sound, the sound, the sound, in its resonances and reverberations, goes on.

In his sometimes arch and overwrought language, poet C S Hughes presents a collection of his reveries, myths, wanderings and fables, in which; a young woman listens to the advice of cats, but ignores the remonstrance of birds; the young people of the Dog Clan, guided by their ancient Mother, defy and surrender to the burgeoning winter; at a funeral, by a carnival, two old soldiers defy their fears, and their strings; on a lost Antarctic shore the Gods approve as an expedition halts for a final game of cricket; by an intemperate sea a fisher-wife cares for a very strange foundling; in a city of sparkling glass washing windows is the loneliest job of all; this and much more you will find, if you surrender reason to The Book Of Fables.