One, Two by Angela Leighton Emily Cotterill Following literary traces as well

Following literary traces as well as exploring landscapes

which speaks directly to a specific immigrant reflexivity

'In his understated debut collection

Staying Alive didn’t just reach a broader readership

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One, Two by Angela Leighton Emily Cotterill Following literary traces as wellIn '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