Michele Roberts — All The Selves I Was

Virago Press Ltd 2000 Paperback, 144pp. Throughout her literary career, Michèle Roberts has written and published her poetry to acclaim. Her poems, rich in biblical and mythological allusion, examine her continuing preoccupations with love, death, food, and sex, working through metaphor to create a way of looking at the world that links the body-self to others, to nature, to life in the city. As she excavates from memory meanings that lie beneath the surface of ordinary life, she dissolves boundaries with sensuous and passionate clarity. (ISBN: 9781853818295). Good.