From Bremer Bay to Venice, Sunderland to Yarloop, Peter Jeffery’s lively and accessible poems range widely among all sorts of unexpected topics, such as bulldozers, Breughel, camels, toys and whiskey. And yet no matter what the subject matter is, his principal concerns are what concerns all of us, love, work, death, creativity and friendship. Whether descriptive, meditative or celebratory, Jeffery’s richly referential poems explore what it means to be human. Bill Grono