Arboretum for the Hunted, [D'Aguiar's] most recent collection of poetry, is a slim, well-produced volume. It contains only fifteen poems, something, once I'd read it, I decided was a strength rather than a weakness. It comes with a foreword by fellow-poet André Naffis-Sahely, in which he points out that D'Aguiar's writing 'has in recent years, taken a more sharply political form.'

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Arboretum for the Hunted, may be slim, but it packs a lot in. I certainly didn't feel short-changed when I'd finished it. Not only that, but I got more out of it than I sometimes get out of collections three times as long. Read it. Keep blowing. Pass it on.