Raising Sparks

After his first collection - SOFT KEYS - Michael Symmons Roberts was hailed by Les Murray as ''a poet for the new, chastened, unenforcing age of faith that has just dawned''. The metaphysical concerns of that first book are central to this new collection, written in a language at once philosophical, sensuous and lyrical. From a doctor who washes lungs to the structure of genes, from mythical hound...