South Africa's most-talked-about contemporary poet's new and selected poems. South Africa's most lucid and composed voice in contemporary poetry, de Kok shares her ability to interweave the intensely personal world with the politically panoramic. - Antjie Krog Read the words aloud and allow each to linger on your tongue: histogram, grace, grenade. Read them and register what the best poetry does without pretence or apology: it gives us back our lives. - Susan Rich, Cape Times