Cirrus@Austlit

'In Margaret Bradstock’s ninth book of poetry Alchemy of the Sun one notices at once the ways in which its this volume’s thematic threads intersect, compound, and grow as an overlay or web throughout the thoughtfully arranged four sections. These sections – Deserts of the mind, Turning back time, Warming, melting, dying, and Going viral – include poems which, read sequentially, make connections beyond the wholeness of each individual poem, and then beyond the volume’s parts to its entirety.' (Introduction)