The Impossibility of NothingnessIn an extraordinary late flowering, these new poems written in his nineties are still characteristically and unmistakably the crafted work of Ian McDonald, and they are also remarkably other. McDonalds hallmark qualities are all still here: a capacity for genuine compassion; an exploration of the complex nature of love; a profound engagement with the natural world; and character vignettes, powerfully drawn, empathetic but never sentimental, that are