In her first collection for a decade, Judith Kazantzis proves herself to be the constant sister of invention and imagination. .
Meditating on the deaths of her parents and of her brother, and on the arrival of a new grandchild, she reconfigures Greek myth from a feminist perspective to address today's inequalities.
The poems range across the violent geography of Palestine and Iraq to the bright landscapes of the American Southwest, from the sensual utopia of 'The Garden pf Earthly Delights' tot he dark inner continents of bereavement and grief.