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It has variety and surprise but is very clearly by one voice – a voice that it is good to listen to because it sees so much.\" Peter Sansom  \"Maria Taylor's poems sing with the extraordinary in the everyday, full of those moments where something or someone is briefly transformed: a woman takes a merman home; a dead Aunt's house becomes a museum where the main object is missing; the memory of morning coffee is full of birds' wings. The power of these poems is that they constantly invoke the unexpected, and the colours and textures of both times past and yet to come.\" Deborah Tyler-Bennett   \"This is a distinctive and assured collection of poems. The writing is at once clear-sighted and fully realised. In its mystery, precision and surprise, Melanchrini shows the truth of a powerful new writer.\" David Morley  Maria Taylor is a Leicestershire-based poet. 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