"Pretend you don't know me : new and selected poems bring together the best of Finuala Dowling's poetry from her Ingrid Jonker prize-winning debut, I flying, to the most recent, unpublished work. Drawing on three out-of-print collections as well as Notes from the Dementia ward (Winner of the Olive Schreiner prize) this selection show Dowling has been described by Joan Hambridge as one of the most important voices of South African poetry in English."--Back over.