Something, I Forget by Angela Leighton Ruth Padel redolent with transporting detail and

redolent with transporting detail and memory

as if I’d something to prove

creator and actor in the world

the poem is filled with the stories of those encountered along the way

to focus on stillness and acts of interrogation

Something, I Forget by Angela Leighton Ruth Padel redolent with transporting detail andwhile news love meant to keep forever is wiped, so lightly, by this scanning weeper. 'Another Lighthouse' Angela Leighton's sixth collection of poems turns on the strange arts of remembering and forgetting. From Rome to Yorkshire, Naples to the Fens, she sets contemporary moments of hope and loss against a classical or Christian backdrop, while tracking a path that goes, more impersonally, from winter's cold to the growth of a garden. There are poems