In Dreams, Like Heretics, Alison Fell expresses the geography of loss and longing. The linguistic energy which informs her poetry is full of grace and fierce wit as she turns images into metaphors of desire, and renewal. A moving sequence, ?In memoriam D.C. , embraces with the grace of an elegy the dead lover - his moods, his fragrances, his fight for life in a Turkish hospital. Her last collection since Kisses for Mayakovsky, Dreams, Like Heretics makes abundantly clear that Alison Fell is a poet worth waiting for.
