Spills
02/2016 · Carcanet
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In Spills Angela Leighton combines poetry, memoir, libretto, short story, prose-poetry and translation, slipping between genres while hearing the conversations between them. 'You start from who you are, and walk and walk', she writes, in the spirit of free-voyaging that defines this collection. The prose tells, semi-fictionally, of the poet's life as the daughter of a composer-father and Italian mother, a life split between languages and places, north and south, often among curious and memorable characters. The poems address related themes of place and language, war and peace, the landscape of southern Italy and the Christian story of the Passion. The conversations between different forms and motifs are a result of Leighton's approach to writing almost as a strain of musical composition. The writing is often about music, but it is also a search for music in writing. The collection closes with a significant new body of translations and adaptations of the Sicilian poet Leonardo Sciascia, Spills's luminous other voice, 'seeking its own heart of music'. // 'Outstanding among the excellent ... the poems ring like bells.' — Anne Stevenson // 'Angela Leighton's genre-defying book - poetry, memoir, experiment in translation in its many and often surprising senses - explores with beautiful precision what she calls the "two-ply tongue", a suggestive metaphor for the way we speak and think and write.' — Patrick McGuinness // 'This is one of those rare books that you know will become a kind of touchstone. It's an unlikely and fetching combination of prose fragments - memories, reflections, personal excavation, stories, travel - and poetry of astonishing grace and spiritual depth. Angela Leighton is among the finest poets at work today in the language, a truth evident in these tangible, philosophical, anguished, ecstatic poems. There is nothing quite like this in the world, which is what makes it art. I will read and reread Spills, and hope it attracts the many readers it deserves.' ?— Jay Parini
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Angela Leighton was born in Wakefield, educated in Edinburgh and Oxford, and has taught at the universities of Hull and Cambridge. She is Research Fellow in poetry at Trinity College, Cambridge and has published many works of literary criticism, poetry and short stories. Her three previous collections of poetry are A Cold Spell (2000), Sea Level (2007), and The Messages (2012).
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