The Station Before by Linda Anderson John Wheway On our way we encounter

On our way we encounter a skiing Pohutukawa Tree

Alice Merry

it was hugely popular with Soviet soldiers

so that each image is stark and true’

Paul Munden

The Station Before by Linda Anderson John Wheway On our way we encounterLinda Anderson's much anticipated first collection travels across time and space, employing a range of voices, including historical ones. At the heart of the collection, though, is always the moment of encounter, the moment when things appear strange, before they settle into a pattern or become known. This is as true of the explorer Charles Kingsley, awed by the Caribbean landscape, as it is of the poet herself, confronted with moments of vision or