Something, I Forget

Angela Leighton's sixth collection of poems explores the strange arts of remembering and forgetting, setting contemporary moments of hope and loss against a classical or Christian backdrop. The poems cover topics such as war, love, childhood, age, and the wiping of memories, and are written in a variety of forms, including strict and free form, rhyming stanzas, and verbal openwork. The collection is designed to test the sound-shapes of language while always listening for the tunes and rhythms that make it sing.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 128 pages
Publication date: 26 October 2023
Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd

Another Lighthouse, Angela Leighton's sixth collection of poems, delves into the enigmatic realms of memory and oblivion. Spanning from Rome to Yorkshire, Naples to the Fens, she juxtaposes contemporary moments of hope and loss against a classical or Christian backdrop, tracing a path that moves impersonally from winter's cold to the flourishing of a garden. Within these pages, she explores themes of war, love, childhood, age, and the profound impact of memory on our lives. Whether elegiac or humorous, each tightly crafted poem stands as its own imagined world, where words possess a keen touch of the tangible, while objects—a creaking old lift in a palazzo, a glass harp played in a backstreet, CDs hanging on a tree, a clay doll in a museum—resonate as memorials to something beyond their mere existence. Whether in strict or free form, rhyming stanzas or verbal openwork, this collection engages with the sound shapes of language while always attuned to the melodies and rhythms that give it life.

Weight: 170g
Dimension: 135 x 216 x 12 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781800173538