Author Description

This fascinating collection explores the landscape of the body with the gaze of the painter, in a language tempered by fire. In poems unflinchingly tough, describing relationships between friends and enemies, mother and child, the self and memory, the unspeakable is named. Crossing into a country with features both familiar and foreign, these poems explore to the edge our sense of healing and belonging, land and place. The final section contains the sweepingly powerful, award-winning poem "Night Is the Smell of Burning".