This is a powerful collection of poems which goes to the heart and the guts of contemporary society, dealing with a range of subjects from East Timor to kids in detention. Roberts's compassion for his fellow humans, his concern for the natural environment and his contempt for hypocrisy and abuse shine through, but these poems are in no way the whinges of a bleeding heart. Savage wit, a keen eye and ear for detail and the ability to focus on the universal without losing sight of the particular, turn love and anger, admiration and disgust into art.

"These are robust poems that sustain their hard-hitting tone well, but still manage to have their moments of sensitive definition..."

- Imago