Can the dandelions be trusted?

Ranging in time and place from her childhood in the Australian outback to heady youthful days in Paris of the ’60s, to slower-paced recent years in the gardens and open spaces around her north London home, these poems are full of a colour and energy that paint a picture Katherine Gallagher’s life lived to the full – and also a reflectiveness, a gentle humour, and occasionally a sense of loss, as the poet looks back on times past.