"Alistair Clarke shows the way poetry can catch the brightness of place (and travel)... Landscape is never redundant in poetry - I would read a whole book of this." -Paula Green, Poetry Shelf Review *** Alistair Clarke's collecting 'Seeing' encompasses his reviewing of his country after years living abroad. Poems repect Colin McCahon's profund response to themountainous, uplifted land. Also, too, the poetry frequentlyproceeds from Allen Curnow's concern to write with accuracy - to record truthfully: how to see, how to describe and explain what is seen or can be known, how parallax affects perception. The poetry extends to the coast and to community, whilst holding to ideas about how we perceive and know place.