“Right from the start you can feel her skill with pace. She propels the reader forward with bursts of vivid imagery. We journey through flowers, time, the body and even temperature in some lines and in the next we land in intimate domesticity, perhaps a more literal place. This flitting use of imagery takes the reader from the breadth of the world and what’s in it to very close and personal places in just a few lines, and it’s a skill Sophia uses in a number of poems…It is a book about absence, and about the presence that absence can carry”