LINDA GODFREY is one of Australia’s finest practitioners of the short form. InTannic Skin & Sweet Flesh she explores how "modern poetry is all about the small incidents from a day", relocating the small and quotidian from the margins to the centre. "Linda Godfrey offers a cornucopia of lush, tactile and sensual tastes and images", says Dael Allison, "from landscapes 'all pale stones and poetry' to the intimacy of the bedroom where 'Eros has loosened my limbs, a breeze ruffles linen sheets and curtains', and the kitchen, where the act of preparing and cooking food is as erotic as sex ... The experience offered in this richly rewarding volume is earthy and lived."