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“The poems in Her Red Songs are visceral testimonies to the natural world, a world that Murray makes tangible and tactile through her intrinsic gift for accuracy and precision. In these remarkable poems the human is decentred in favour of a voice that strives ‘to be in the world, to be of the world’; to be part of the thing and not the thing itself – a rare quality in contemporary poetry. To read Her Red Songs is to be subsumed into the beautiful and lightly
worn intricacy of Murray’s ‘complex architecture’ of sound, sense, pattern, repetition, and characteristically distilled observation.
Leeanne Quinn