Swimming Through a Painting by Bonnard, by Michèle Roberts

This is Michele Roberts's sixth collection of poetry. She also writes novels, essays, plays and film scripts, and has collaborated on several artist's books. She is half-French, and sometimes writes half-French poems.

‘Michèle Roberts is one of those writers descended perhaps as much from Monet and Debussy as from Virginia Woolf and Keats...To read a book by her is to savour colour, sound, taste, texture and touch as never before.’ The Times