Loss, love and various severed body parts are scattered throughout Dragonish. This collection has its roots in the reality of family, friends and home, but reaches into the other worlds: the circus of possibilities (where insurance salesmen are trapeze artists), the home of ageing mermaids, London’s dryads, or a nineteenth century French brothel where Van Gogh’s ear doesn’t seem out of place. Some poems are dark psycho-thrillers, while others have a warm humour that tempts the reader to peep beneath the surface of things.