“The reader cannot but admire Maria Grech Ganado’s penetrating gaze in poems about childhood, family, love, loss and ageing, many with philosophical musings. She manages to frame life with a sideways slant and wit, and even in the darkest of subject matter, there is an iridescence which shines through. A poet to live by — she deserves to be recognised among Europe’s leading women poets — certainly one of poetry’s wisest women.” - Menna Elfyn FRSL • Welsh poet and playwrightWith funding by the Malta Book Fund (National Book Council)
“What I love in all of your poems I’ve read, is the way you connect poetry with everyday experiences, simultaneously the depth of what can be felt by a human being and a kind of narrative about what happens, how behind the shape of each verse, there is the real meaning, the multiple dimensions the self lives, both seen and unseen.”
— Frédéric Dumond
“The reader cannot but admire Maria Grech Ganado’s penetrating gaze in poems about childhood, family, love, loss and ageing, many with philosophical musings. She manages to frame life with a sideways slant and wit, and even in the darkest of subject matter, there is an iridescence which shines through. A poet to live by — she deserves to be recognised among Europe’s leading women poets — certainly one of poetry’s wisest women.”
— Menna Elfyn FRSL • Welsh poet and playwright
