The Blue Hour (hardback, 96pp)
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November 2023. The Blue Hour is the second full-length collection by Angelina D’Roza. You can order the book securely by clicking on the relevant PayPal button above. Click here to read ‘Lullaby’; click here to read ‘Frangipani’; click here to read ‘The Hathersage Road’; click here to read ‘The Lark Ascending’.
The formally varied, thematically related poems of The Blue Hour reflect on aspects of home and distance, place and displacement, either through the lens of correspondence, the prisms of fable and fairytale, or ‘the consideration of blue’ that recurs throughout the book. It’s also a musically rich collection, encompassing lullabies, birdsong, popular tunes and Kepler’s theory of interplanetary tones, and a recognition of these patterns in nature, ‘the fractals in the bracken, their green mathematics transposed as music, the closing cadence that resolves the song.’ Melancholic, beautifully contemplative poems, fusing binaries of past, present, memory and fiction, temporality and arrested time … Solace is in the repetition, in cyclicality. Endings are always beginnings. —Ágnes Lehóczky on The Blue Hour
Correspondences
(hand-stitched pamphlet, 36pp)
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September 2019. A hand-stitched pamphlet comprising 18 new poems – formally varied, thematically related – including ‘About the Human Voice’ and ‘Trees’. Click on the relevant PayPal button above to order the pamphlet.
There is an urgency of saying in all D’Roza’s work, to speak experience authentically and thereby lead it beyond the subjective, and to bring it to its point, its meaning, which is never reached in an automatic or conventional way. – Peter Riley in The Fortnightly Review, August 2019
Envies the Birds (hardback, 80pp)
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March 2016. A beautifully produced 80-page hardback, Envies the Birds is Angelina D’Roza‘s debut full-length poetry collection. You can order the book securely by clicking on the relevant PayPal button above. Visit the Envies the Birds microsite to read and listen to poems from the book.
This quiet is more shul than nothingness and must be given due respect. She thinks it’s like the grass on Lose Hill, that doesn’t muddy where others have been, but tilts gold at certain times of day, and leads her down from the top.
In Tibetan, shul is the impression left after whatever made it has gone. Envies the Birds is the tarmac blueprint where a tower block once stood, “the channel worn through rock where a river runs in flood, the indentation in the grass where an animal slept last night”.
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