In her seventh full collection, Can the Dandelions Be Trusted?, the award-winning poet, Katherine Gallagher, writes about impressions and events ranging across the whole of her long life.

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She is a close observer, who delights in things being various. The title poem, with which the collection begins, contains not just dandelions, but ‘marigolds pouting as if they’ve just discovered / their proper name calendulas’, as well as seven other garden flowers.

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As an experienced poet, she makes good use of a variety of forms, including the sonnet, villanelle, cinquain, tanka, haibun and prose poem. She also displays a particular fondness for anaphora. Though technically accomplished, she favours a plain style, which in her hands is both assured and expressive.