Winner, Queensland Premier's Award for Poetry. The challenge for readers of David P Reiter's work over the past 15 years has been trying to pin down his art and influences. Not an easy task. His imagination resists cultural razor wire by composing without a passport, accepting no subject as off-limits. And this multi-award winning author more often sets the trends these days rather than following them. He stubbornly clings to the view that poetry does have a future, and a bright one. Some of the new work here has been drawn from his forays into artforms such as "literary multimedia" where poetry -- the most adaptable of literary forms -- finds a new home. Whether in print, on CD, or the Internet, David P Reiter will continue to demand our close attention.