'Stephen Oliver is one of Australasia's major poets. If in earlier collections he took on the great modernist, post-romantic themes (questions of whether the landscape speaks, and of the roles of memory and of the poet), here in Luxembourg the poems are more personal, exploring emotions raised by a return to New Zealand after 20 years in Australia. Oliver is one of those poets who make us see the world, in all its particulars, anew--a poet whose depth of imagination is everywhere apparent, an imagist whose poems catch consciousness at its very margins.'
Source : publisher's blurb
