This collection of poetry - bought after reading a review in the TLS that captured my imagination although I can't now remember what it was that did it! - is remarkable for the way each poem stays in my memory not so much for the exact words MR Peacocke uses but for the mysterious way her poems create an atmosphere in my mind (and in my heart) that makes me wonder what happened next, or what happened before, or what it is between the lines of the poems that she means and that I've only half-grasped. I have taken to reading a poem aloud to myself every day (a wise piece of advice gleaned from Maggie Hamand's Creative Writing for Dummies, http://www.goodreads.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=creative+writing+for+dummies) but I'm sure the poems from this collection will resonate in my mind and in my heart long after I've stopped reading one of them each day.