Gita Ralleigh's smoulders like smoke in a ruby, with a powerful sense of danger and compulsion in considering women's lives, agency, and hybridity. Ralleigh's survival poems are underpinned by a wild and menacing unpredictability, her language is hyper-sensitive, with sources as disparate as Adrienne Rich, Ovid and Asian mythology. If you hear the siren's call, beware, nobody leaves her unchanged.