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Musgrave's mind ranges widely and certain of his poems persist in the memory many years after the first reading. His work is coherent not so much through theme or content but through quality, often manifested in strikingly different ways. -Geoff Page, The Canberra Times; There is an enormous range on offer, and the collection is worth reading for these moments of realised maturity and humour, which are entirely appropriate in a poet as accomplished and acclaimed as Musgrave - James Antoniou, The Australian; On Numb & Number: an enormous range on offer, and the collection is worth reading for these moments of realised maturity and humour, which are entirely appropriate in a poet as accomplished and acclaimed as Musgrave. - The Sydney Morning Herald

David Musgrave is one of the leading Australian poets of his generation. Born in Sydney in 1965, he was educated at Sydney University where he was awarded a PhD for his dissertation on Menippean satire. He has published seven collections of poetry, and one novel, Glissando., and co-edted the anthology Contemporary Australian Poetry. His work has won numerous awards in Australia, including the Grace Leven, Judith Wright Calanthe, Henry Lawson and Newcastle Poetry prizes. In 2005 he founded the independent publishing house Puncher & Wattmann, which is now widely recognized as Australia's leading poetry publisher. He lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Newcastle, and he lives in Newcastle with his family.