Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.The below extract is from The Face in the Well, the third collection from Suffolk-born poet Rebecca Watts. The poems in her new book hop between eras and memories, and display — like all of this accomplished poet’s verse — an acute perceptiveness rendered playful with imagination, wit and warmth.‘The Young Comedian Enrols at Clown School’At Clown School her face and her long limbsare her five best assets. When the coach saysTake Up Space she eats the airlike it’s Angel Delight, scooping its pinkpeaks into her arms. She can do Small too,like a wormeast on the beach at low tide,and she can do Frog,which is wider than Jack-in-the-Box.Bravo! This kind of workdischarges from the soul; it can’t be put back.Back at real school her teachers are fit to burst.You can wipe that look off your face right now,one of them swipes, as she sinks into the seatwearing her best Hangdog, chin tucked, brow knitted,bottom lip stuck out. She’s under his skin,and she’d better get used to itbecause its going to be the same all her life.Even when she’s got a proper job there’ll be peoplewho’ll want to prevent her from shimmeringlike moonlight on the sea;who’ll want to blot out the moon entirely,finding her mute presence too strong,her round face too expressive.From ‘The Face in the Well’ (Carcanet, £11.99; to be published in the US in March)
