Unlike the previous four volumes of Bird Singing From a Dead Tree, in The Changeling Or The Foster Child poems rather than lyrics make up the bulk of the work to be found within. In these poems of observation, introversion, alienation, unease and acute intensity the influence of early modern European poetry movements may be detected. From the suggestive, impressionistic mode of symbolism through the more open, groundbreaking work of cubism and on to surrealistic explorations of the unconscious, the poems here also at times have echoes of early Blake and the work of James Stephens. In addition to the song forms found in the first four volumes, the lyrics included here also touch on pop, dance pop and cross-cultural influences. All in all, The Changeling Or The Foster Child is a reminder of the abiding interest in the musicality of words not just in song forms but in poetry as well, as evidenced in the near-legendary, hard-done-by, and hard-to-come-by(or buy) 2009 music/word collaboration, Under the Wall, with musician/songwriter Jamie Snider (Wonderful Grand Band, Morgaine Le Fay, Acoustic Dance(s) ).

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