For some years [Thomas's] poetry was best known for a science fiction element but his collection The Honeymoon Voyage (1978 …) displayed a wide range of subject matter and was very well received. [Dreaming in Bronze] shows a continued progress in material and technique. The collection is divided into two sections. In the first, the poems are in the form of letters, journals or accounts by characters set in literary or historical context; Freud appears both as a character and as an influence on how the other characters are seen in situations of violence, repression and frustration. The importance of Freud continues in the second section where many of the poems are more personal, more immediately attached to the author, in his musings about growing up and his links with his family. The combination of a strongly erotic element with the familiar is sometimes brutal and discomfiting. Thomas's poems are...