“Cox’s voice, at its best, has a sensuous intelligence that moves deftly between a variety of registers at once, and not simply when it is shifting into Spanish or Swahili. In her hands the same English which ‘can sound so curt and stiff’ can be restrained, or cold, or venturesome, or loving, and her confidence in her craft is clear. ‘A surgeon should be human,’ one speaker remarks in a blackout poem from a Margaret Atwood novel, and Cox has, at times, a marvellous touch for knowing when to probe the tender spots, and when to hold back.” cont…