More Or Less Than

<p>This is Australian poet MTC Cronin's tenth book and her second British collection. A compositional tour de force the sequence consists of one hundred poems the line-count arcing from a single line in poem 1 to fifty lines in poem 50 and thence back down to a single line in poem 100. Like many forms self-imposed or otherwise Ms Cronin uses this apparently restrictive structure to support a wonderfully original unfolding of verse. Ms Cronin's work has been attracting enormous interest in both Britain and North America and this volume will reinforce her burgeoning reputation.</p>