Great Regulers: This is at once impressive, because

the poem deserves the attention it demands, and a pity--because it's a deeply affecting piece of work, and everyone who has known grief will feel they can identify with at least some parts of it. Sure, an air of difficulty hangs over everything: there are a great many dislocations and disjunctions, a lot of fairly obscure classical references, and an entire remembered lifetime of silences, uncertainties and withholdings. Far from making the story seem remote, however, and lowering its emotional temperature, these things quicken its heartbeat. Nox is a brilliantly curated collection of fragments, which analyses and manifests the elusiveness that all human beings detect in one another, no matter how much they love them.

from Andrew Motion: The Guardian: Nox by Anne Carson

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