Heartland

By Michele Leggott

Michele Leggott&#39;s new book of poetry follows on from her 2009 collection, Mirabile Dictu, in its exploration of light and of gathering dark. Leggott is a poet of the lilting, shining moment and the sections here follow some of her own moments and movements, experiments and experiences - to Devonport, to Australia, to the north - as well as reverberating with the stories and histories of others. The book&#39;s final two sections take this exploration of character and narrative further as in one we see off a soldier - shadowed by Leggott - to the First World War; and in the other - set in an earlier, unspecified time charted for us by telegraphic weather reports - a family tragedy unfolds, until a body is finally brought home for burial. With her &#39;dear shapes gone to sound&#39;, Leggott&#39;s textured poem-scapes are more aurally charged than ever, like a &#39;piano in a dark room that is / quite what it is like and never the same&#39;. A splendid, immersive collection of poetry, Heartland is also, Leggott says, &#39;a destination and a song, a shadow and a single word with two chambers&#39;.

Michele Leggott's new book of poetry follows on from her 2009 collection, Mirabile Dictu, in its exploration of light and of gathering dark. Leggott is a poet of the lilting, shining moment and the sections here follow some of her own moments and movements, experiments and

By Michele Leggott

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