“Whether evoking a past world existing somewhere between history and myth, describing landscapes, or narrating the subtle turnings of a relationship, Gustafsson’s special skill lies in clever, vivid, often punning, diction, meticulously chosen and controlled.” Robert Powell. “These poems combine acute observation of the natural world, a specific setting in the landscape of the North of England, and a bright Scandinavian sense of form. This is only the surface, and embodied in the poetic fa...