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One, TwoAngela Leighton![]() 10% off all versions
Categories: 21st Century, British, Women
Imprint: Carcanet Poetry Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (154 pages) (Pub. Jan 2021) 9781800170162 £12.99 £11.69 eBook (EPUB) Needs ADE! (Pub. Jan 2021) 9781800170179 £10.39 £9.35 eBook (Kindle) (Pub. Jan 2021) 9781800170186 £10.39 £9.35 To use the EPUB version, you will need to have Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) installed on your device. You can find out more at https://www.adobe.com/uk/solutions/ebook/digital-editions.html. Please do not purchase this version if you do not have, or are prepared to install, Adobe Digital Editions.
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.
Praise for Angela Leighton
'Its lasting impression is a renewed awareness of poetry's manifold reach.'
The TLS 'Outstanding among the excellent ... the poems ring like bells.' Anne Stevenson 'Angela Leighton's genre-defying book -- poetry, memoir, experiment in translation in its many and often surprising senses -- explores with beautiful precision what she calls the 'two-ply tongue', a suggestive metaphor for the way we speak and think and write.' Patrick McGuinness |
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