The thing that drew me to Mary Melvin Geoghegan's collection was its accessibility. Too often poems push the reader away but these draw the reader in. Their simplicity; their directness; their wonderful imagery; their rawness are gifts from writer to reader. The settings move from cattle mart to gallery to library to Eyre Square and far beyond but that sureness of touch and that directness of expression are constants in this constellation of words.-John MacKenna