Graham Burchell opens his review “I have discovered a wonderful book of light: real, surreal, atmospheric, exotic and alien.”
“Although as mentioned earlier, there is a cohesive link from one poem to the next, it is wonderful to move from ‘Michaelangelo’s Meals’ to “The Ghost of a Nature Reserve’ or from ‘Oz’ to Bodmin Moor. I make no clicking sticks of bones about it. This collection delighted me. Coming to the end of the thirty-fifth poem where
the sky’s segmented hull
is podded with rooftops
and unexpected weatherI feel as [though] I have been on a long roller-coaster ride. I have been pulled in and out of focus and scale. I have observed the spin within a molecule: ‘Zoom me closer. Take me to the edge’ and I have reached beyond ‘the grubby underbellies of giant white cats.’ I have loved the journey. It is without doubt the most exhilarating collection of poetry that I have read this year.”
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