Looking Out Looking In

"Many of the poems address absent figures: a lost grandmother, a mother later to be lost, former lovers, schoolfriends, mentors. Typically they hold their interlocutors with verbally dextrous, digression-filled narrations that start in medias res, resist closure and defy summary. Their apparent anxiety about incompleteness or uncertainty of context is much more than a postmodern posture."—Times Literary Supplement

Poetry Book Society Special Commendation

Aptly described by Gavin Ewart as `a...