Still, the Sky

By: Tom Pearson

Narrated by: Andrew Broaddus, Justin Lynch, Mary Madsen

Still, the Sky is a speculative mythology rendered through poetry that combines the tales of Icarus and the Minotaur and creates for them a shared coming of age through a correspondence of written fragments, artifacts, ecofacts, and ephemera. Fragmented memories, relics, and confessions combine in a labyrinth of fever dreams and meditations that contemplate innocence and experience, war and peace, exile and homecoming, flight and failure, love and loss.

In this new audiobook rendition of Tom Pearson's poetry, the characters of Ikaros, Asterion, Daedalus, Ariadne, and others are given voice through the chorus of performers, Andrew Broaddus, Justin Lynch, and Mary Madsen, while the physical and psychological worlds they inhabit are sculpted by a through-composed score written and played by Sean Hagerty with Isaiah Singer.

Sean Hagerty: electric violin and mandolin, keyboard, electronics

Isaiah Singer: upright bass, harmonica, slide guitar, electric piano

Lorenzo Wolff: Audio Engineer (Restoration Sound, Brooklyn)

©2022 Tom Pearson (P)2023 Tom Pearson

Performance Art Experience

Still, the Sky is a poetic collection of short abstract-styled memories, experiences, fragments of thoughts, and more presented as performance art.

The author, Tom Pearson provides thought-provoking snippets of memories, thoughts, and experiences that flow smoothly. Descriptions are detailed and elicit vivid images. The presentation style is a blending of spoken words and music infused with abstract details and conceptual topics.

The narrators, Andrew Broaddus, Justing Lynch, and Mary Madsen, deliver a solid performance blending their performances smoothly and flawlessly. At times their joint voices provide a surreal experience that heightens the words being spoken creating a vivid picture. The use of music also increases the experience. While I am not a fan of music or sound effects, this production was well done.

This is a well-done performance and audiobook that invokes vivid imagery and emotions.


There were no issues with the quality or production of this audiobook.