Intermittent Angels

Jan Dean is a poet always on the lookout for angels both ‘wondrous’ and ‘wicked’. She has a gift for sliding sideways with her words making every aspect of her engagement with the world magical. With its impressive range of people places and experiences – from dramatic re-imaginings of a Spanish couple building a castle in the North Queensland rainforest to tender intensely vivid recreations of her own family history (and so much more along the way!) – this is a collection with surprises and delights on every page. It is witty poignant gloriously visual and daringly original. Even if the angels are only ‘intermittent’ this is a wondrous account of an intensely experienced earth-bound life.Jean Kent