Two Tongues by Claudine Toutoungi Richard Meier Lydia Popowich

Lydia Popowich

From “those once endless years” of a childhood in wartime – tasting of Granny’s chicken soup

sharing her experience of childhood and marriage and writing poignantly about the passing of time

If I am bombed I hope he will write a few sapphics about me

Two Tongues by Claudine Toutoungi Richard Meier Lydia PopowichSlip ups, skirmishes and the sidelong glance characterise Claudine Toutoungi's Two Tongues, a surreal and startling second collection that takes on the dislocations and double takes of modern life and weaves from them poems of wit, grit and delicious abandon. In a landscape populated by levitating snailfish, sotto voce therapists, melancholic kittiwakes and collapsing stage sets, boundaries blur, languages merge, vision is partial and identity nothing