Short listed for the Victorian Premier's Award 2012. reviewed in Australian Book Review. "Can there be any Australian poet who has entered with such lyrical depth into the intermingling voice of Australia and INdia? Michelle Cahill's poems are astonishingly rich and new, their feet so deeply planted in timeless myth" Chris Wallace-Crabbe. "Michelle Cahill's verse is controlled with a deep vein of feeling running beneath the measured lines...her poetry rises on a 'burning ladder of language'. Keki N Daruwalla.