'The Japanese art of ‘Kintsugi’, the use of gold or other materials to repair and decorate broken pottery, provides the underlying theme of this collection. Time, memory, place and love become the agents that break, bind and repair throughout. The first section explores the connotations and impact of ‘place’ . As if to emphasise the ‘kin’ in ‘Kintsugi’, poems in the second section describe the perspectives, stresses and occasional breakages of being a parent and a child but remind us, too that such relationships offer ‘new coastlines of experience’. The third section meditates on objects and their protean meanings.' (Publication summary)
