Trinity Poets

Angela Leighton taught for many years at the University of Hull. She is now Senior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge. She has published books and essays on nineteenth and twentieth-century literature, including "On Form: Poetry, Aestheticism, and the Legacy of a Word", as well as three volumes of poetry: "A Cold Spell" (2000), "Sea Level" (2007) and "The Messages" (2012). Her poems have appeared in many magazines in Britain and America, and some have been set to music.

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).

"Outstanding among the excellent... the poems ring like bells" – Anne Stevenson

"€کAngela 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