A dazzling anthology of classic and contemporary love poems selected by an award-winning poet.

A celebration of what it means to be close to someone . . . Fiere is a kind and compassionate collection, gently optimistic.  It moves with familiar and familial ease between continents, between dialects, between generations

‘Her love poems are swooningly glorious . . . Her boldness and confidence is staggering, like an explorer into a new frontier, unafraid to thread together words that please her from any time

Kinsella’s poems are a very rare feat: they are narratives of feeling. Vivid sight – of landscapes, of animals, of human forms in distant light – becomes insight. There is, often, the shock of the new. But somehow awaited, even familiar. Which is the homecoming of a true poet’