Throughout the book, the narrator’s self is interrogated and investigated by being placed in front of a distorting mirror of the Other – the twin, the dream self, the lover, the fictional alter-ego, the foreigner, the stranger. It is not an entirely comfortable ride – loss, death, sexual betrayal and violence are a frequent presence in the poems – but it is an illuminating one, in the company of a literate, intelligent and compassionate traveller.
reviewed in Brittle Star Issue 33
Lucy Hamilton Poetry 