Exploring body and place in ways that are expansive, intimate and playful, 'Viva the Real' celebrates resilience and continuity in everyday life. Jones' poems offer us a strong, vital voice, charged with her effortlessly rhythmic and resonant lyricism. This collection is both haunted and visceral, and will resonate long after reading. Praise for 'Viva the Real': "Intelligent, wise and splendidly idiosyncratic, these poems delight in quirky combinations, inventive segues, and the vivacity and urgency of a newly imagined real." Gail Jones "'Viva the Real' – simultaneously comic and elegiac - pierces ordinary experience to offer a compelling new reality." David McCooey