Looking Out to Sea

Published by Steele Roberts Aotearoa, Wellington, 2015, 57 pages. Tidy copy.

Here in his 22nd collection of poems, Kevin Ireland is as deft and wise as ever: The perfect loving phrase the one that tongues a dazzling parting thought and leaves a vapour trail across the heart does not force its truths from gravities (or likelihoods from similarities) but weaves an arc of steamy sparkly hold-on-tights-for-godsakes and from nothing more than golden-mackled loops.