Listening In

In this original second collection, Lynley Edmeades turns her attention to ideas of sound, listening, and speech. Listening In is full of the verbal play and linguistic experimentation that characterised her first collection, but it also shows the poet pushing the form into new territories. Her poems show, often sardonically, how language can be undermined: linguistic registers are rife with uncertainties, ambiguities, and accidental comedy. She shuffles and reshuffles statements and texts,...