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Something, I Forget

  • ISBN-13: 9781800173538
  • Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
    Imprint: CARCANET PRESS
  • By Angela Leighton
  • Price: AUD $29.99
  • Stock: 9 in stock
  • Availability: Order will be despatched as soon as possible.
  • Local release date: 01/01/2024
  • Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 135.00mm) 96 pages Weight: 175g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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Angela Leightons sixth book of poems turns on the curious arts of remembering and forgetting. A poem will be written, James Longenbach writes, if in the grip of memory we are able to forget. A poem may be read in the same spirit, of remembering, to forget, and so read again. These poems, composed in strict form, free form, bird-form or cruciform, experiment with the sound-shapes of language, always attentive to the rhythms that keep them singing. There are love poems to the earth, its stones, gardens, cities, weathers; and elegies for creatures, human and animal, that survive on its surface. There are poems about war, love, age, and the wiping of memories they (differently) encourage. Each closely worked poem is its own imaginable place, where words have the keen touch of things, yet things - the CDs hanging on a tree, star moss on a stone wall, a glass harp played in a back street, a three-thousand year old clay doll - resonate as if remembering other moments, other places. These varied, arresting, musical poems try to catch what lies out there, on the minds dark seas.

Angela Leighton was born in Wakefield to a Yorkshire father, the composer Kenneth Leighton, and a Neapolitan mother. She has published many works of criticism, most recently Hearing Things: The Work of Sound in Literature (2018), as well as five volumes of poetry: A Cold Spell (2000), Sea Level (2006), The Messages (2012), Spills (2016), and One, Two (2021). She returns often to Yorkshire and to Italy.

• Sixth collection from celebrated poet and critic Angela Leighton, Senior Research Fellow in English at Trinity College, Cambridge

• Joint editor of Carcanet’s Trinity Poets anthology (2017)• These varied, arresting, and musical poems focus on the arts of remembering and forgetting

• Includes love poems to the earth, its stones, gardens, cities, weathers; and elegies for creatures, human and animal, that inhabit its surface

• Poems composed in strict form, free form, bird-form or cruciform, experimenting with the sound-shapes of language

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