'Western Australian poet Lisa Collyer’s debut collection is challenging, confronting and exquisitely crafted. She addresses feminist concerns in poems about ageing, beauty and desire as well as speaking the unspeakable in autobiographical poems about living with the limitations of the female body. Infertility, childlessness, termination, domestic violence and sexual assault are front of mind in Collyer’s work but she also tackles environmental concerns — female bodies and the plight of the planet are linked by themes of grief and a race against time.' (Introduction)