“Every Singer”

We draw volume 9 of Heron Tree to a close with “Every Singer” by Susan Kay Anderson, created from John Mills’ Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son (1922). Please click here to read.

About the poem and the process of composing it, Susan Kay Anderson writes:

There are so many jewels in John Mills’ Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son. I read the text with an eye for details I could grasp onto and wrote down words and phrases that were full of personality and humor. What I discovered was a philosophical treatise. I felt that it was painful for Mills to see his son grow up but couldn’t tell him this. He had to accept this fact, and his writing shows a kind of sad resignation with a mix of practicality.

Also by Susan Kay Anderson at Heron Tree: “The Problem,” “Digression,” “At Radio Central,” and “When I Was a Boy.”