Only One Angel

Jan Kemp is a poet of the Big Smoke generation. After many years of living overseas, mainly in Asia, this is her first collection of new work since 1991. It extends the themes and preoccupations of her previous volume with her distinctive female sensibility and language that is deceptively simple. The poems sound good to the ear and are a pleasure to read. The volume, illustrated by Claudia Pond Eyley, is loosely gathered around the theme of a personal journey towards an intimate relationship. Widely disparate experiences - intellectual, artistic, spiritual, sensual - are brought together with clarity, honesty and wit.