Out of the Hearing Sky is a book of odes by Tommy Sissons, set between the supermarkets and greasy spoons of London and a mythic England of drowned witches and stolen lambs. Benefit debt, a teenage fight, a father’s borstal tattoo and the death of someone loved all pass through these poems, which swerve from street comedy into incantation and bring Demeter and Osiris into the aisles of Asda. At the book’s centre is the Groundling: thief, sin-eater and kingmaker, who claims the ode as he claims England, by theft and by song.