In The Painted Lady Suzanne Edgar focuses on art, the natural world, the intimacy of love, human caprice. These poems will stop you in your tracks with the force of their emotional intensity. '…a highly intelligent, inventive and gifted poet…' - Les Murray '…her lively imagistic work has a quirky edginess, a sensuous delicacy…the finely crafted and polished poems in free verse and traditional forms…capture voice and character while modulating mood and tone…' - Jan Owen