Following Viktor Shklovskys instruction to make everyday objects seem unfamiliar, Richard Skinners fourth collection sets out to release the potential of inanimate objects. A marbled egg, white balloons, unopened boxes, a Greek island, numbers, a yellow yo-yo - nothing in this book is quite what it seems. Unsettling, precise and enigmatic, Invisible Sun confirms Skinners reputation as a poet of playful misplacement and misdirection. It is a book about windows, light, clouds, the upside down world glimpsed through shadows and mists, and always the invisible sun - bright source of all life but also our daily measure of time and loss - illuminating the distant glitter of other peoples lives.