Following her prize-winning first collection, Martha Kapos again captures an extraordinary range of perceptions and emotion. Her style is highly original, a sort of internal Cubism, conveying a feeling-state by observing it precisely through many sharply nuanced images and from many angles. She creates a very distinctive, unique atmosphere ? graver here than in her previous collection. Supreme Being is both a huge hymn of praise for ?life?, for ordinary experiencing, and at the same time faces very movingly and directly the incomprehensibility of loss ? the loss of someone else, deeply known and loved, and the awareness, too, of the coming loss of the poet?s own ?experiencing?: themes as grave and profound as can be imagined. These are the substance of religious feeling and ? without overt religious referencing ? Supreme Being earns its bold title. A Poetry Book Society Recommendation