A Place to Return To

A Place To Return To is a rich and rewarding experience. The tone is elegiac and erudite an erudition worn lightly and leavened by flashes of self-deprecating wit. `Attentive to the words between our words the poems reach for the ineffable the transcendent seeking things of the spirit in the minutiae of closely observed landscapes--hills sea rocks--and they range widely across New Zealand Europe the Middle East and beyond. Memory and the present coexist in these poems in a wistful fusion and always turning away from darkness they tell us `what it means to walk inside the light'. --James Norcliffe `Poetry as some sort of explanation or in lieu of any explanation; or perhaps an attempt at saying the essentially unsayable . . . this seems to be my poetic project.' --John Allison.