Jill Jones' poems are remarkable for their perceptions and insights, at once gentle yet resistant, accessible yet strict; the language assured in its effects and selection of detail. He ruse of the meditative lyric is both masterful and compelling. Judith Beveridge Jill Jones' poetry is both juicy and intimate. But underneath its lovely Sydney tang of sun and harbour is a dark destabilising smell of trouble. This is a complex and fascinating book. Dorothy Porter 'One of those poets who is beginning to move Australian poetry into new directions - towards a greater trust than ever in the poet's own responses, a quietening of judgemental implications, and a desire to be able to articulate positive emotion, to find ways of exploring the rhapsodic." Martin Langford, Southerly