Hearing the bones of language: review of David Musgrave's Mishearing

In the essays that bookend the poetry, David Musgrave outlines the experiment that produced this collection of “misheard” poems: a mishearing that is broader than, say, the mondegreen phenomenon, because it seeks to accommodate voice, the “sonic distinctiveness” . He tests this out through a practice of both homophonic and heterophonic “translation”, in a project that builds on and adds to the corpus of knowledge in the field.