Anne Haverty - The Beauty of the Moon PRICE: IRP£9.60 PUBLISHER: Chatto & Windus, Random House

Anne Haverty's first collection of poetry is infused with the yearning and disillusion that we associate with the fin de siècle. Haunted by a sense of the passing of time and its mutabilities, the poems are also meditations on the inevitability of separateness - between mothers and daughters, town and country past and present, life and death.

Wonderfully varied in form and content, this collection introduces a poet of considerable range and talent. Intimate poems are set against verse which looks beyond the author's experience to other times and places. Haverty's unique feeling for landscape and the music of speech, the control with which she invests the quietest detail with waves of emotion, will be delightfully familiar to readers of her fiction and a great discovery for those who read her here for the first time.