The poems in this, Alan Jenkin's third collection, speak of the harm done & suffered
- most frequently in the name of love
- in the course of lives gone adrift among lost causes, chance meetings & missed chances. A new directness & simplicity, & throughout, a raw urgency of personal feeling, inform a voice that is as resourceful as in Jenkin's earlier volumes, & continues to salvage a 'fugitive lyricism' (as one reviewer put it) from harsh & dissonant realities. ' By turns jocular, disquieting, sexy & inventive'-PETER READING, SUNDAY TIMES ' Jenkins' poetry is exhilarating... It is charged with erotic energy, rage, sorrow & confusion'-TLS ' Stylish, Savage, unforgiving'-HUGO WILLIAMS, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH ' Jenkins has a restless mind: following his poetry gives his readers a rocky ride, but also a rewarding one. '-PETER PORTER, OBSERVER.