Janice Fitzpatrick-Simmons has the eyes of a seer. In love poems, in poems about people and place, belonging and exile, she sees into the innerness and hiddenness of things. These poems are experiences made vivid, flashes of awareness, shocks of recognition. By intensifying our perceptions, they help us to re-see the world. They restore us with new insights and knowledge, to the everyday of our lives. Janice Fitzpatrick-Simmons is a poet of stature, a sounding, sifting intelligence, 'gaining strength with every song.' With this compelling collection be prepared for a night of stimulating insomnia.-Cathal O'Searcaigh