One, Two

by Angela Leighton

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1800170165
• ISBN13: 9781800170162
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Carcanet Press
• Length: 154 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.3" x 5.1"