Something, I Forget Leighton Angela
Something, I Forget Leighton Angela while news love meant to keep forever is wiped, so lightly, by this scanning weeper. From Rome to Yorkshire, Naples to the Fens, she sets contemporary moments of…
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Something, I Forget Leighton Angela
while news love meant to keep forever is wiped, so lightly, by this scanning weeper. 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. 'Another Lighthouse' Angela Leighton's sixth collection of poems turns on the strange arts of remembering and forgetting.
Whether elegiac or humorous, 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. There are poems about war, love, childhood, age, and the wiping of memories they (differently) encourage. Whether in strict or free form, in