Judy Brown s new poetry collection, Crowd Sensations, showcases her subtle and dazzling style. A poet whose work is inspired as much by thoughtful speculation and metaphysics as it is by personal experience and relationships, Brown s poems surprise and delight at every turn. A central theme is the contrast between the city and the countryside. As well as spells living in London and Hong Kong, the author s recent residencies at the Wordsworth Trust in Grasmere and at Gladstone s Library in North Wales have provided key moments of inspiration. Her skill at paradox is evident in poems of unsettling intimacy, such as Poem In Which I Am Not Shortsighted alongside poems of uneasy domesticity such as On The Last Evening We Watch Movies in Bed . There is also some quiet, edgy humour in Poem in the Voice of a Dead Cockroach and Was this review helpful to you? ."