What the Mirror Tells invites us into a world where mini-fictions meet memoir, where commonplace objects acquire a curious and often unsettling edge. These are poems of implication and suggestion, reverberating sequences in which reflections speak as eloquently as fact, where a young bellringer brings the houses outside to shuddering point; the knowledge held by a hallway mirror outlasts its owner; and ancestral presences are as alive as a paediatric surgeon in a Boston hospital.