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They contemplate the spaces between the spaces between things and compare the rhythm of rhetoric to the rhetoric of rhythm, while around them chickens feed on chestnuts, nuthatches nest in bicycle baskets, and budgerigars sulk themselves to sleep.  The second half features shorter stand-alone poems. 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As in his award-winning first collection The Book of Matthew, the poet attends precisely to each detail: the rhythms are musical but unexpected; the brightness control on imagery is turned up high. New in this book is the emphasis on collaboration. Some of this work began in text pieces for art exhibitions or as song-cycle lyrics. Other poems respond to the influences of Gertrude Stein, Raymond Queneau, Inger Christensen, dom silvester houedard, Yoko Ono and Gyorgy Ligeti. 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Such images are layered with reflections on how the things around us manifest a kind of 'thinginess' - as Welton puts it - and how this creates the context for our thoughts.   Small Birds Singing is a book-length poem of fragments, drawn from a year's walking through one city's green spaces. Over the course of twelve months running from September to August, we accumulate hundreds of images drawn from a closely observed daily existence moving between the home and other indoor places, into the green spaces of the modern city.   The book's two-line stanzas are strung together to a form a drizzly British renga - fragments are alternately justified to the left and right margins so that the book progresses like a long zig-zag line. Much like Matthew Welton's other books, these formal innovations occur with a kind of quietness that results in an absorbing reading experience. 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