Description: Sarah Corbett is interested less in the everyday than in "what moves beneath the surface of my own and other's experience", lending her poems mystery and the intent of discovery Two notable themes emerge in this collection. First is the author's experience as a young child of the absence of her mother, and the subsequent search for a mother figure. Her mother appears ambiguously, as a benevolent ghost or an imposter. The second theme running through this collection derives from the poet's rural Welsh background and her involvement with horses, which appear as both actual and imagined experiences: objects of nature and symbols of freedom or erotic energy and power.

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