In the near distance is everything that calls us to the world and to ourselves *** "The unexamined life is not worth living. ––Plato. These poems, written during this past year, are circumstantial evidence in that examination. They might be seen as efforts towards coherence; or as efforts towards existing in the incoherence. Or as poems." ––John Allison *** What reviewers said of A Place to Return To (Cold Hub Press, 2019) : a set of new and unpublished poems powerful in their perception, insight and imagination ––Siobhan Harvey, NZ Herald *** a very satisfying collection for both its lyricism and its intellectual heft ––Nicholas Reid, The Listener.