DEEP COLOUR, by Diana Bridge (Otago University Press, $25)
In her eighth collection, Diana Bridge shows again her erudition and deep interest in classical Asian culture. She takes on themes of transience and the relationship of art with the world of nature. After elegiac poems for a dead friend, and a wistful glance comprises poems inspired by the 18th-century Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro and his depictions of the natural phenomena in a garden.
