KATE BUSH

How To Be Invisible: Selected Lyrics FABER & FABER The Bic inside: Kate’s words all alone on the page.

Few musicians’ lyrics thrive separated from their music; it’s the conjunction of the two elements, lent charisma by their creator, which gives the full effect. As poets, Paul Simon, Leonard Cohen and Lou Reed cut it. Lately, books compiling the writings of Nick Cave and Jarvis Cocker have been wellreceived, and Faber now bring out Kate Bush’s linguistics in a cloth-bound edition. The introduction by Cloud Atlas novelist David Mitchell suggests that while her lyrics are “avowedly idiosyncratic”, they “evoke emotions and sensations that feel universal”. He has a point. Her anthems