The author writes of her work, "This selection reflects continuities the eye for detail and ear for cadence, the process of distilling experience for its essentials, the power of the image. It also reflects range and development; from simple clarity of early works which were notionally influenced by classic black and white photographers such as Brandt, and Bresson in whose human and inanimate landscapes, the whole narratives could be extrapolated from the fleeting moment, to the more wide-angled view of the later poems, pre-empted by the earlier Goldstein's Drapery in which history is viewed through the archeology of fashion"