'Since the year 2000 with the publication of Why I am not a Farmer Brendan Ryan has been ploughing his own fertile patch of the poetic landscape. Feldspar, his seventh collection, (aside from the evocatively titled memoir Walk Like a Cow) treads familiar terrain. Any why not? Dorothy Hewett consistently returned to the West Australian wheat fields of her youth. So too, Ryan returns to the remembered territory of his past.' (Introduction)