David Regan is a painter and a photographer as well as a poet--and it shows.  Moving through Some Exaggerations is like paging through a book of Monet's paintings of Givenchy; he makes us conscious not just of what is being seen, but the light in which it is seen. But in Some Exaggerations, the scenes too are varied--we move with David from the banksias on a Victorian beach to a balcony in the Cyclades, and from a couple observed in a jazz bar to an encounter with a bereaved woman on a tram.
David's voice is calm; he observes accurately and tries to make sense of what he sees, then shares his reflections with his reader in an initmate conversation. And it is a conversation from which you walk way enriched.