Sleeper - Softcover

Jo Colley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1916139213 ISBN 13: 9781916139213

Publisher: Smokestack Books, 2020

Synopsis

Sleepers hide in plain sight. Spies, double agents, lovers, mothers, writers. They wear smiling masks, turn up the collars of their raincoats, write in invisible ink, wear many disguises, and consort with the enemy. Some of them sleep for years, like Sleeping Beauty, waiting to be summoned. Some forget what they are hiding from, or where their real allegiances lie. Sleeper examines loyalty and dishonesty, class and power, the spies who were caught like Mata Hari and Ethel Rosenberg and those who got away like the Cambridge Spies seen through the eyes of friends, family and lovers (including the four wives of Kim Philby). Sleeper is a book about secrets and lies, divided loyalties and double lives, about waiting to come in from the cold.

About this title

About the Author

Jo Colley’s previous collections are As If (Vane Women), Punchdrunk (Ek Zuban), Weeping for the Lovely Phantoms (Salt) and Bones of Birds (Smokestack). She was poet in residence for the Northern Poetry Library from 2016-18, and helped to create the Poem of the North website.

Edition details

• Publisher: Smokestack Books
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1916139213
• ISBN 13: 9781916139213
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 84