Frances Leviston's first collection, Public Dream, was one of the most acclaimed
debuts of recent years, and praised for combining 'technical mastery with a luc
idity that verges on the hypnotic' (Independent). Leviston's keenly-anticipated
second book sees both an intellectual and dramatic intensification of her projec
t. We often credit poetry as a kind of truth-telling, but it can also be an agen
t and a vessel of disinformation: in the course of making its proofs and confess
ions, it also seeks to persuade and seduce by any means it can.
