Insisting on YellowThis work includes new poems and work from seven collections published between 1984 and 1998. In the section of new poems there are explorations of the need for love, waking and dream visions and a series of poems which feature parts of the body.

the Forbidden City

geologists

and one hand has been cut off

both have a pared-down style and an electric presence and both are evidently worshipped by their Royal partners

But Circe has neither the look nor the voice of divinity

This sets off a cycle of unwitting retribution between three Zambian families (black

as benefit cuts

and functions

she teaches a short course on it every year

And that something makes them very dangerous indeed

That chickens are capable of complex communication

When yet another woman is murdered