“Sprackland has the poet’s knack for atmosphere and a magician’s ability to conjure up other worlds. She is like a ghostly time traveller.”
— Ann Treneman, The Times
“A deeply pleasurable blend of poetic anthropology... against the inevitable forces of erasure, this small book serves as an act of defiance.”
— Claire Allfree, Evening Standard
“A wide-ranging, unpredictable and refreshingly original meditation on a huge but widely ignored subject: the relationship between the living and the dead… Exhilarating… always a joy to read. I wish I had written it myself.”
“Jean Sprackland’s poems are an uncommon pleasure to read. They are defined by their hospitable grace... the mundane is transformed but never falsified.”
