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“angela leighton”

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  • One, Two

    A poignant exploration of memory, loss, and the human spirit from a celebrated poet.In One, Two, Angela Leighton presents a collection of poems that navigate the landscapes of memory, from childhood recollections to elegies for a mother. With a keen eye for detail, Leighton transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary, finding beauty and meaning in nature, art, and the complexities of language. ... Read more

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  • Hearing Things

    The Work of Sound in Literature

    Hearing Things is a meditation on sound’s work in literature. Drawing on critical works and the commentaries of many poets and novelists who have paid close attention to the role of the ear in writing and reading, Angela Leighton offers a reconsideration of literature itself as an exercise in hearing.An established critic and poet, Leighton explains how we listen to the printed word, while showing ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Something, I Forget

    A poignant exploration of memory, loss, and the enduring power of place.Angela Leighton's sixth collection of poems delves into the delicate dance between remembering and forgetting. From the ancient streets of Rome to the rugged landscapes of Yorkshire, and the haunting canals of Naples to the serene Fens, these poems set contemporary moments against a rich backdrop of history and myth.These ... Read more

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  • Spills

    A poignant collection of poetry, memoir, and translations exploring memory, loss, and identity.In Spills, Angela Leighton reflects on her past, from her childhood in northern England and Italy to her relationship with her father, composer Kenneth Leighton. Through candid poems, she contemplates death and mortality, drawing from the Bible and Greek mythology. Leighton also translates the work of ... Read more

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  • Archipelago

    A Reader

    Archipelago is one of the most important and influential literary magazines of the lasttwenty years. Running to twelve editions, it was edited by Andrew McNeillie, with theassistance later of James McDonald Lockhart, and began as an attempt to reimagine therelationships between the islands of Ireland and Britain. Archipelago has brought togetherestablished and emerging artists in creative ... Read more

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    Anne Stevenson is a major American and British poet. Born in Cambridge of American parents, she grew up in the States but has lived in Britain for most of her adult life. Rooted in close observation of the world and acute psychological insight, her poems continually question how we see and think about the world. They are incisive as well as entertaining, marrying critical rigour with personal ... Read more

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  • All One Breath

    by John Burnside ...
    Shortlisted for the 2014 T.S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize for Best Collection‘There are lines in All One Breath for instance, that brand themselves into your brain with the fire of painful recognition. And yet it is also part of his genius to be ever alert to beauty, too.’ - Sebastian Barry, a*New Statesman* Book of the YearIn this absorbing, brilliant new collection – his first since Black ... Read more

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  • Playing with Fire

    by Grevel Lindop ...
    A dazzling blend of intellectualism and eroticism, this poetry collection employs sumptuous, sensory language to explore a wide range of subjects—including a blood-drinking Tibetan deity, lemons in Robert Graves' garden, and an East London strip club. By boldly traversing the boundary between the erotic and the sexual, these love poems are both passionate and strikingly original. ... Read more

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  • Between Two Windows

    by Oli Hazzard ...
    The first book of poems by Oli Hazzard, this compilation exposes its author as a consummate master of language, a gifted writer of free verse with the ability to write in traditional poetic forms and stretch the forms to their limits. Through lyrical poems and satires, this collection explores contrasting milieus such as city and country and reality and dream, while subjects such as thefts and ... Read more

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  • Swimming Chenango Lake

    Selected Poems

    William Carlos Williams valued Charles Tomlinson's poetry: 'He has divided his line according to a new measure learned, perhaps, for a new world. It gives a refreshing rustle or seething to the words which bespeak the entrance of a new life.' Of all the poets of his generation, Charles Tomlinson was most alert to English and translated poetry from other worlds. The Mexican poet Octavio Paz admired ... Read more

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  • New Selected Poems 1988-2013

    by Seamus Heaney ...
    New Selected Poems 1988-2013 provides an unrivalled account of a period of work that was crowned by the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. Together with its earlier, sibling volume, it completes the arc of a remarkable career.Shortly before his death in 2013, Seamus Heaney discussed with his publisher the prospect of a companion volume to his landmark New Selected Poems 1966-1987 aimed at ... Read more

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  • Seeing Things

    by Seamus Heaney ...
    This collection of Seamus Heaney's work, especially in the vivid and surprising twelve-line poems entitled "Squarings", shows he is ready to re-imagine experience and "to credit marvels". The title poem, "Seeing Things", is typical of the whole book. It begins with memories of an actual event, then moves towards the visionary while never relinquishing its feel for the textures and sensations of ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD