Her quiet, precise poems have a genuine eeriness. She has interests in both archaeology and psychology, but knows intuitively that they arent separate - that when we dig up the past its our own roots we are looking at. Grevel Lindop The diction is unexpected, apt and deeply satisfying, focusing the reader not only on the words chosen, but also on the ghosts and resonances of those that might have been there. Carola Luther Missel-Child is an exceptional volume.