One, Two (Poetry)

One, Two (Poetry)
Angela Leighton
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h216 x 135mm - 154pg
28 Jan 2021 UK
9781800170162
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In ' Pickpocket, Naples' , a sonnet sequence reflecting on her Neapolitan background, Angela Leighton imagines a poem ' surprised in the act of finding itself' . Constantly alert to such surprises, One, Two moves from memory-scapes of childhood to elegies for her mother, quirky tributes to the creatures of the natural world to anguished poems about breath and breathlessness in times of coronavirus. Some of these poems are in formal stanzas; others catch the spaced freedom of dream or day-dream. Above all, this is a poetry which insists on the rhythmic footstep that walks in words, on the ' one, two' of a beat in language, whether the steps of a dance or the daily countdowns of sickness and death. The volume ends with some translations of the poetry of Dante and Pirandello which, either strictly or more freely, test the limits of translation. This is Leighton' s fifth volume of poetry, and shows once again her characteristic sense of wit, music and formal invention.
' Angela Leighton is not only one of our most skilfully moving writers: she is also one of our most successful exponents of ' experiment' . . . ' - Oxford Poetry; ' poems whose variousness and musicality will be familiar to those who have read her splendid Shoestring Press collections' - Times Literary Supplement
Angela Leighton was born in Wakefield, educated in Edinburgh and Oxford, and has taught at the universities of Hull and Cambridge. The daughter of a Yorkshire father and a Neapolitan mother, she has always recognised her heritage of mixed languages and conflicting assumptions. Perhaps for this reason her work has always pushed at the boundaries of literary form. Her most recent critical book, Hearing Things: The Work of Sound in Literature (2018), sets creative prose alongside critical thinking to suggest the connections between them. She has published short stories and reviews in many journals, as well as four previous volumes of poetry: A Cold Spell (2000), Sea Level (2007), The Messages (2012) and Spills (2016) - this last interweaving memoir, short story, translation (from the Italian) as well as original poetry.
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ISBN-13: 9781800170162
Published: 28 Jan 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Carcanet Press
Publisher: Carcanet Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 216mm
Width: 135mm
Spine: 12mm
Pages: 154

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