More Or Less Than

is Australian poet MTC Cronin& 39;s tenth book and her second British collection. A compositional tour de force, the sequence consists of one hundred poems, the line-count arcing from a single line in poem 1 to fifty lines in poem 50, and thence back down to a single line in poem 100. Like many forms, self-imposed or otherwise, Ms Cronin uses this apparently restrictive structure to support a wonderfully original unfolding of verse. Ms Cronin& 39;s work has been attracting enormous interest in both Britain and North America, and this volume will reinforce her burgeoning reputation.