by Zoë Landale

What is most impressive about Colour of Winter Air is the ability of the writing to probe so effectively both the inner and outer human worlds. Though firmly rooted in everyday experience, these poems constantly reach to generate an expanded and expanding vision that combines meaning and emotion, reality and possibility, in a powerful display of both wisdom and hope.

Zoë Landale’s enormous talent is in full flower here, as her words reveal and illuminate not only the lives we lead, but the often-hidden existence behind our day-to-day activities, and a better future glowing below the mundane surface of things.