"Throughout this collection, the full gamut of poetic craft is evident: the skilled application of repetition, lineation, fresh conceits and images, the use of exact detail ensure the consistent and accurate conveyance of the shifting moods, the play of light, and changing landscapes as the backcloth against which the human predicament takes place. This is brave and bold writing: the technique always rising to meet the demands of the poem's multifarious and far-reaching concerns." Roger Elkin, Marking Time, Chance Meetings. "The world of Jude Neale's poems is a place of luminous moments where a careful intelligence is surprised by emotional depths." Jack Hodgins, Spit Delaney's Island, The Invention of the World. "Jude Neale possesses an arresting voice that gives the ache and awe of our ordinary lives an incantatory eloquence." Betsy Warland, Oscar of Between -- A Memoir of Identity and Ideas "This is a work of profound and generous intimacy. Each poem is a brief intrigue into the dark beauty that can be found in the quotidian and in the quiet spaces that fold us into filial contemplation.

What is a daughter, a shiver, a creme blanket, a city street, or an iridescent wing? Neale so deftly implores us to feel the radiant longing enclosed within the fleeting silence of these cinematic songs." Liz Howard, 2016 winner of the Griffin Prize for Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent.