Marie Cadden's debut collection, Gynaecologist in the Jacuzzi, is sassy and sensuous - at times wickedly dark, often rueful and nostalgic, always lyrically female - curving on the ear, easy on the eye, `juicing on the tongue'. Her work - as a teacher of children with autism, teacher of the deaf, play therapist - has fine-tuned Marie's succinct poetry and she delivers it with style, humour, bite. From hammocks and shooting stars to mammograms and the adventures of ageing, the poems move onward, `possibilities trembling' towards `the relentless wobble' of `one last sashay'. These are poems of hope, enchantment, disenchantment and acceptance.