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Trinity Poets

An Anthology of Poems by Members of Trinity College, Cambridge

Edited by Angela Leighton and Adrian Poole

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Categories: 21st Century, Anthologies, British
Imprint: Carcanet Poetry
Publisher: Carcanet Press
Available as:
Paperback (424 pages)
(Pub. Apr 2017)
9781784103569
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Hardback (424 pages)
(Pub. Apr 2017)
9781784105235
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  • THIS HARDBACK VERSION IS ONLY AVAILABLE TO ALUMNI OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
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    An anthology of poems by members of Trinity College, Cambridge from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century.

    This landmark anthology celebrates six centuries of poetry from Trinity College, Cambridge. Over the years, Trinity may have harboured more great poets than any other comparable institution: Herbert, Marvell, Dryden, Byron, Tennyson, Housman, and Nabokov all feature in these pages. In the modern period the college has welcomed poets including Thom Gunn and Sophie Hannah, Rebecca Watts and Jacob Polley. Readers will find here old favourites (‘To His Coy Mistress’, ‘She Walks in Beauty’, ‘Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám’, ‘In Memoriam’, poems from Winnie-the-Pooh) and much that is startling – old and new.




    Angela Leighton
    Angela Leighton was born in Wakefield, educated in Edinburgh and Oxford, and has taught at the universities of Hull and Cambridge. The daughter of a Yorkshire (composer) father and a Neapolitan mother, she has always recognised her heritage of mixed languages and conflicting standpoints. Perhaps for this reason her work has ... read more
    Adrian Poole
    Adrian Poole is a Fellow in English at Trinity College. His books include Shakespeare and the Victorians (2003), Tragedy: A Very Short Introduction (2005), and (co-edited with Jeremy Maule), The Oxford Book of Classical Verse in Translation (1995). ... read more
    Praise for Angela Leighton 'This is artful, precise, thoughtful and quite often beautiful poetry... Leighton combines all her considerable strengths: precise, allusive density of expression; deft aural music; a flair for creating new forms; and a huge descriptive talent.'
    Victoria Moul, The Friday Poem
    'One of the strengths, however, of Angela Leighton's new volume, her sixth, is its awareness of forgetful rememberings like this... It's an exciting, experimental effect.'
    Hugh Barnes, The Arts Desk
    'Leighton's playful, imaginative language gives rise to form that is ingeniously attentive to the strange coincidences, chance encounters, and arbitrary correspondences of which a life is constituted.'

    Joseph Turner, Oxford Review of Books

    '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
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