A debut collection which covers an astonishing range—from musing over the fate of childhood dolls to a surreal mountain ascent with a dead father on her back, from mourning the ravages of climate change to celebrating a chance poolside encounter with an imaginative youngster, from a clear-eyed recognition of the evils of colonial dispossession to a scrupulously fair account of the lives of settler ancestors —with expansive  sympathy, broad erudition and an enviable command of language and form.