The first collection by one of New Zealand’s most promising young poets.

Anna Smaill’s poems are ‘the result of a deep and patient meditation and have been, as it were, truly lived through, so they ring true’. —Bernadette Hall

‘There is a rhythmic confidence, a musicality about her use of cadence and syntax, which makes her poems stick on the page; and there is a way in which quite idiosyncratic unfoldings of clauses and phrases seem entirely effortless and quite inevitable.’
—Bill Manhire