Something, I forget
Leighton, Angela, 1954-2023
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'Another Lighthouse' Angela Leighton's sixth collection of poems turns on the strange arts of remembering and forgetting. From Rome to Yorkshire, Naples to the Fens, she sets contemporary moments of hope and loss against a classical or Christian backdrop, while tracking a path that goes, more impersonally, from winter's cold to the growth of a garden. There are poems about war, love, childhood, age, and the wiping of memories they (differently) encourage. Whether elegiac or humourous, each tightly written poem is its own imaginable place, where words have the keen touch of things, yet things - a creaky old lift in a palazzo, a glass harp played in a backstreet, the CDs hanging on a tree, a clay doll in a museum - resonate like memorials to 'something' beyond themselves.
Main title:
Something, I forget / Angela Leighton.
Author:
Leighton, Angela, 1954-, author
Imprint:
Manchester : Carcanet Poetry, 2023.
Collation:
128 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:
9781800173538 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
821.92821 LEI
Local class:
821 LEIGHTON
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2406565