Island and Atoll moves from sheltered Ireland’s leafy lanes and shorelines, through the richness of sea life in cold waters and its brilliance in tropical oceans, to Bikini Atoll’s recovering lagoon. This lucid book attends to contemporary realities, and yet imagines the world dreaming in a peaceful and harmonious future.
"This is an extraordinary piece of work. There is an almost hallucinogenic quality to many of these poems, so vivid and present in the moment that as a reader I felt myself inhabiting the world they describe." Patrick Chapman
"Jane Robinson is a marvellous poet. Here are poems of deep curiosity, wonder and devotion to the everyday astonishments of the natural world. Island and Atoll is not simply a
book; it’s a forcefield of imagination."
Annemarie Ní Churreáin
"Jane Robinson is a poet of serious intent. More importantly she is a poet with enough range and depth of imagination and technique to give expression to that intent. Her poems are firmly grounded in the physical world. This is one reason why the sometimes daring flights of the imagination seem so real, so immediate and so credible. Robinson’s Throughout her work the combination of observation and description is confident and authoritative and is part of the fabric of her poems, which use the language and observational power of the scientific mind as tools to make wonderfully serious and seriously wonderful poems."
– Paddy Bushe
