Jennifer Christie Temple is back with a new collection of poems, several years after her last was published. The intervening time has been one of personal trauma and loss for the poet but, as she herself remarks, 'sometimes it's the worst of times that can produce the best poetry.' These new poems certainly show a depth of understanding and maybe even a celebration of the differences in life experience of those we know and love. Happily, the quirky little bits of humour are still interspersed through this collection as they were with her earlier books and give a balance of emotional tone that characterises all her work.