'In this collection the reader is taken through dream sequences, abstract, ekphrastic and imagistic poems as well as deeply personal poems of loss. The effect is a cumulative building of a quiet world of reflective resilience as the poet tries out possible ways to do what is almost impossible – to love and to say goodbye.'(Publication summary)
'I received a pre-publication draft of Anne Kellas’s most recent book early in March, when I was offered, and enthusiastically seized, the chance to endorse the work of a poet I have admired since first acquaintance with it. The collection was such a knockout that I could hardly believe anyone in Australia could respond to personal catastrophe with such artistic intelligence, fortitude, and grace that this book reveals.' (Introduction)
'I received a pre-publication draft of Anne Kellas’s most recent book early in March, when I was offered, and enthusiastically seized, the chance to endorse the work of a poet I have admired since first acquaintance with it. The collection was such a knockout that I could hardly believe anyone in Australia could respond to personal catastrophe with such artistic intelligence, fortitude, and grace that this book reveals.' (Introduction)
