Harry Matthews’ first collection, Sonarification, charms the sea to give a sound. His poems arise from a depth and profundity blended with enchantment. It is a ground breaking book of poems. Its themes are familiar but are given a contemporary significance in the threats to the ocean, and more traditionally, in poems celebrating antiquity, love, friendship, loss and triumph. The poems move in an ever-expanding wave that continues to echo; for he believes poetry should signify extraordinary and important realities. Sonarification is a visionary work, a sonar reading for the soul in a suffering world.