Magnolia

This is a book of the body and the senses, whether the million tiny nerve endings of young love; the hunger that turns your bones soft in the heat; the painterly, edible, physical colour of flowers and the fabric lantern in the pattern of Maggie Cheung's blue cheongsam; or the soft scratchings of dusk. These are poems of warm blue longing and understated beauty, poems to linger over, taste, and taste again. As Powles searches for home she leaves an imprint of rain in your dreams --