One Eye'd Leigh

"One Eye'd Leigh" is a book of portraits, experiments and objects made of words. They find their locations between Cape Town and London, between the dawn of the new millennium and the present day. Guided by a biographical thread, in her first collection Kate Kilalea borrows the techniques of a craftsman to transform material into new shapes: an artist's concentrated gaze at the very particular subject in her portrait poems; an embroiderer's delicate craft of stitching to create a paced poetry, meticulous in detail. Her language is familiar, her forms transparent. She leads readers through a landscape in which the lucid angles of a chair might express love more precisely than the lines of a sonnet. It is the ways in which these poems turn what is familiar into something strange and new, what is stable fluid, and how out of light darkness is seen to shine, that make these poems powerful, haunting and original.

ISBN 1857549929   Pages 86 ISBN13 9781857549928 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Carcanet Press Ltd   Weight (grammes) 45 Imprint Carcanet Press Ltd   Published in Manchester Format Paperback   Height (mm) 216 Publication date 24 Apr 2009   Width (mm) 135 DEWEY 821   Spine width (mm) 5 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level General

		You were a bird
		Portrait of Our Death
		Portrait of the beach
		Self-portrait with Colwyn (doing the dishes)
		Stitch and unpick
		Loose ends
		Fallen down things
		Sleeping bridges
		The small Karoo
		Test pieces
		The vineyard
		The surfaces
		Onscreen
		Vehicles
		Attachment
		Revolution
		Potholes
		Amazement
		My name changed
		Homecoming
		Goodbye is a semi-circle
		Like we did (salt, coffee and apricot jam)
		The boy with a fire in his boot
		The conductor and the world in the wallpaper
		The Liberty Cap
		An incident among the wildflowers
		How the fish lost its head
		Recycled small boys
		A perfect love
		The grey fox
		Dirty little rat
		The secret life of objects
		The concealing chair
		More...

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