The New Zealnd poet, Michele Leggott builds "on the fabulous slopes of ellipsis" a space for readers to explore the interaction between words and perception. Latinate words swim alongside simple accumulations of single vowel sounds. See in particular "Micromelismata", a wonderous poem laid out mirror-like on two pages like the traces of two kisses. At first glance it is immediate concrete visual poetry. On examining the details, it's a sublte sound poem. Few writers can please both eye and ear with such grace. Even fewer create such involutive chambers as with lines like "catspaw on the meniscus". To be savoured and reread.