The Lady Chapel houses a variety of saints and sinners. Women mystics - from the medieval Hildegard of Bingen to the longsuffering Mrs Yeats - step forward and expand our ideas of the divine. Other voices, male and female, respond by exploring conditions of intimacy or isolation. The collection ends with a sequence of yoga poems, where language is stretched along with the body, offering new perspectives on our unpredictable world.'Sarah Law's poetry is ambitious and accomplished, sensuous and philosophical. She's a love poet and a satirist, but the great European mystics - particularly Hildegard and Julian - are presiding influences on her work, and the best poems contain glimpses of the same astonishment, the same light and darkness.'Michael Symmons Roberts'A daring book, both sensuous and cerebral, in which the everyday world transforms itself into something both holy and strange.'Deryn Rees-Jones'Sarah Law has put together a brilliant book: funny, ecstatic, mystical, playful, sensuous and deliciously intelligent.

And behind these qualities there is an intense joy. This is one of the most surprising and exciting collections I have read in a good while.'George Szirtes.