“Claire Duffus is a minimalist poet, using the breathing space at the end of each line as part of her picture. She juxtaposes images – clouds with origami cranes, fresh winds with tendrils of hope – letting the story hit her reader somewhere through the poem and possibly only on the third reading, as with the best poetry.
Always emerging is Claire’s wonderful deep-seated sea-memory, a childhood washed in spray and gales, and an adulthood spent searching the skies for truth behind words. Claire is also, and possibly primarily, a painter, whose detailed depictions of boats and seashores enrich her writings. More recently her poetry has become courageously introspective, an immensely important step in every poet’s contribution to the greater tapestry of her country’s written heritage. It gives us all a stepping-stone for our own work.”
– From the Foreword by Sue Goss
