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Charged with vivid imagery and distilled emotion J V Birchs poems carry us across the globe swerving between touching intimacies and crackling insight as she skilfully unfolds the emotional complexities of beauty and loss. Venturing into memories of childhood and family these poems brim with the bittersweet tensions of relationships stretched across distance and time. This collection casts a wide net yet never loses its acute sensitivity to the wondrous and terrible details of the world. - Rachael MeadJ V Birchs poetry can be read anywhere and in any mood. Her focus shifts between the intimacy of familial and romantic relationships and a journalling of global travel. Her poems are short and modular full of potency and with a lively curiosity for extracting the essence from each of her experiences. - Jules Leigh KochIn this collection J V Birch focuses on the meaning of place. But there are layers to these poems so that the idea of place is explored alongside the meaning of loss of human behaviour of distance from loved ones of reminiscence of being an outsider of nature in the wild and in the city of catastrophic events and mortality of relationships and love. - Mike Hopkins