This volume introduces the work of four relatively new and quite diverse Tasmanian poets. Since its publication, Kathy Allen has read to great acclaim at the Tasmanian Poetry Festival, Mande Bijelic has achieved a cult following as a performer of her quirky ultra-short pieces, both solo and as a member (with May Carrol, Eric Beach, Michael Fortescue and Greg Kingston) of Three Well-dressed Poets and Two Serious Musicians, Julie Hunt has had further volumes published and critically well recieved, and Alison Symes won the 1993 Shugg Award.

"Kathy Allen's neat sense of juxtaposing icons of Australian life... Julie Hunt's India poems use arresting imagery...Alison Symes makes an effectively deadpan use of an institutionalized, disabled persona with, at times, deadly force..."

- David Gilbey, fourW

"Mande Bijelic's poetry does for dadaist minimalism what René Magritte did for the bowler hat."

- Giles Hugo, The Mercury